Train station

[Allen Crisp]

This now seems to be used universally, but 30 years ago everyone would call it a railway station. It doesn't particularly bother me, but does anyone know when/why "train" replaced "railway"?

[vivandorron]

I agree , Railway Station it was; and ,in my opinion should still apply.
Ask the Government who has taken us off the rails.

[Quizmonster]

I suspect it just followed naturally from 'bus-station'. Nobody ever called that a 'road-station', which would be the equivalent of 'railway station'. It is also probably yet another americanism which has caught on here.
'Train station' is not listed in The Oxford English Dictionary, which would suggest it came into use only within the past twenty years or so.

[anotheoldgit]

It should still be called a railway station, because a "train" is only a train when the locomotive (engine) is attached to carriages.

[JillP]

Probably due to American influence, like a lot of the spelling taught in schools these days.