Rail Or Train?

[jourdain2]

I've noticed that the words 'Railway Station' seem to have become defunct and the (to my mind uglier) 'Train Station' is ubiquitous on the radio. When and why did this start to happen?

[jourdain2]

Hope so baza.

[Prudie]

You're not Nicholas Parsons are you? I only ask because I saw your post last Tuesday and hadn't heard the train/railway thing mentioned before but there was NP saying exactly the same niggle on R4 this morning!

[jourdain2]

No, I'm not N.P., but it's obviously been driving both of us bonkers for some time. I wonder if he is an AB-er, however.

[cupid04]

Just a minute...I'll ask...

[jourdain2]

Love it, cupid!

[Prudie]

LOL cupid, I wonder who he could be..

[gness]

Obiter is incorrect.......not all doors are electronically controlled.

A year or so ago I came to back Kettering on a very rickety late train.
The door had to be opened by sliding down the window and releasing the handle on the outside.

The handle was low down....I am quite short and the train was on a slight tilt. When the catch released the door swung open with me hanging over the window.
I had to be lifted down by a guard.

[baza]

the things you do to attract a man.....

[cupid04]

And you just love a man in uniform, gness....

[corylus]

Hope the guard enjoyed your trip Gness.

It has to be Railway Station as the RAIL WAY superseded the trains that followed.

[gness]

Faint heart never won fair.....well any man will do, Baza.....fair...dark..in or out of uniform.....

Though complaining about his hernia as he lifted me down did put me off somewhat..... :-(

[grasscarp]

I had to be lifted down by a guard ....... yeh right. Gness you always find a way to be manhandled!

[gness]

Grass.....do you know how hard it is to hang on to a train window crying....Oh,woe is me....help..... long enough to be heard.....

It takes will power and effort you know.....☺

[grasscarp]

And I admire you for it Gness. ;o)