train station

train station
train station
first recorded in the OED as recently as 1955, seems in BrE to be taking over from railway station in contexts where something more specific is needed than just station:

• I was with my friend at Forest Gate train station, east London, when we were stopped and searched —Socialist Worker Online, 2003 [OEC].


Modern English usage. 2014.

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