In the words of Victor Meldrew ... "I don't bl**dy believe it"
There is indeed no hope. Here in and from what was once 'Great Britain' we gave the world amongst other things, railways. The places at which passengers could board or alight were known as stations. Hundreds of towns and cities in this once great country bore testament to their ubiquity with a proliferation of Station Roads. The British railway station needed no prefix, it was always just 'The Station', or Railway station if there really was the need to drive the point home. Buses, coaches and the Police amongst others were so treated, but not the one for railway use. Sadly, in a gradual cancerous way, the Americanism 'Train Station' is infiltrating almost un-checked along with, amongst others, the misuse of the word alternate, when really they mean alternative. It's a slippery slope! Imagine my horror and surprise to find such a chalked sign as this at a Heritage Centre largely dedicated to the birth of Britain's railways....
Oh, and the times were at variance to those I'd been given to operate too!
In the words of Victor Meldrew ... "I don't bl**dy believe it"
There is indeed no hope. Here in and from what was once 'Great Britain' we gave the world amongst other things, railways. The places at which passengers could board or alight were known as stations. Hundreds of towns and cities in this once great country bore testament to their ubiquity with a proliferation of Station Roads. The British railway station needed no prefix, it was always just 'The Station', or Railway station if there really was the need to drive the point home. Buses, coaches and the Police amongst others were so treated, but not the one for railway use. Sadly, in a gradual cancerous way, the Americanism 'Train Station' is infiltrating almost un-checked along with, amongst others, the misuse of the word alternate, when really they mean alternative. It's a slippery slope! Imagine my horror and surprise to find such a chalked sign as this at a Heritage Centre largely dedicated to the birth of Britain's railways....
Oh, and the times were at variance to those I'd been given to operate too!