which train station is this? north west England somewhere...

For some reason Crewe has popped into my head but as Ive not been there for 30 years I wouldnt expect to be right.
 
have you got any info about the photo at all? Age perhaps?
 
I think it *might* be Bolton Trinity Street train station.
 
What's all this 'Train Station' stuff? They're called 'Railway Stations' !!


Steve.
 
KIPAX said:
How posh are you! :)
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I'm afraid it's more likely an age thing than a sign of poshness!

When I was young they were always referred to as railway stations. I have only heard train station being used in the last fifteen years. I think it's part of the encroaching Americanisation of the world!


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
I'm afraid it's more likely an age thing than a sign of poshness!

When I was young they were always referred to as railway stations. I have only heard train station being used in the last fifteen years. I think it's part of the encroaching Americanisation of the world!
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actually i think its a northern thing.. i am probably older than you and its always been train station up here... railway station is a gob full for southerners :)
 
My Mum says "It's station, not railway station or train station, just station! :D
 
Tigger.ufo said:
My Mum says "It's station, not railway station or train station, just station! :D
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The trouble with that is we have a train station and bus station, both are very close to each other.
So if you are meeting someone at the station, it pays to be a little specific, unless of course you wish to avoid them ? :p
 
If they are next to each other (as they are here) there is no need to be specific!


Steve.
 
Close enough to walk one to the other, far enough apart to miss an appointment ;)
 
Cobra said:
The trouble with that is we have a train station and bus station, both are very close to each other.
So if you are meeting someone at the station, it pays to be a little specific, unless of course you wish to avoid them ? :p
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Ah, well she would say that you have the station and the bus station, easily differentiated! :D
 
Marcel said:
infact I'm pretty sure of it

Click here
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1szUPIm6R-fobLgE87Zn3DgA!2e0
and this shows you looking down at where I think the photo was taken from. You've got the flat mini roof thing infront of you, visible in the photos.
The angle all fits together too
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funny thing is, Bolton was the first name that sprung to mind, what with the building visible in the background.
about 12 yrs ago i went there for some psychometric testing as part of a job application (train driver)
 
Hi Carlo - it is most definitely Bolton (Trinity Street) railway station - I use it quite regularly.
 
Steve Smith said:
What's all this 'Train Station' stuff? They're called 'Railway Stations' !!


Steve.
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Hooray it isn't just me then. I hate to hear this chavvy and childlike "Train Station" which seems to have come about over the last few years. The only time this term would have been used at one time would be when talking to very young children who didn't understand the concept of railways but knew what a chuffer train was.
I couldn't imagine Simon and Garfunkel singing "I'm Sitting In A Train Station"
I don't know how old Kipax is but I am from Lancashire and never heard this train station thing until recent years.
I think it all started, not with the Americans but when the railways were privatised the individual companies referred to themselves as Northern or Midland Trains Etc. In the past they would have been railway companies but now they are train companies.
 
Jack Flash said:
I think it all started, not with the Americans but when the railways were privatised the individual companies referred to themselves as Northern or Midland Trains Etc. In the past they would have been railway companies but now they are train companies.
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Another bit of complete nonsense. Railway companies without trains and train companies without railways!


Steve.
 
Jack Flash said:
Hooray it isn't just me then. I hate to hear this chavvy and childlike "Train Station" which seems to have come about over the last few years. The only time this term would have been used at one time would be when talking to very young children who didn't understand the concept of railways but knew what a chuffer train was.
I couldn't imagine Simon and Garfunkel singing "I'm Sitting In A Train Station"
I don't know how old Kipax is but I am from Lancashire and never heard this train station thing until recent years.
I think it all started, not with the Americans but when the railways were privatised the individual companies referred to themselves as Northern or Midland Trains Etc. In the past they would have been railway companies but now they are train companies.
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I too am from Lancashire and they've always been train stations to me! what form of transport do you catch? do you board a railway, or a train?
think somebody got out of bed the wrong side eh?
 
Its definitely train station up here, its the train that uses the station not the railway.
 
robj20 said:
Its definitely train station up here, its the train that uses the station not the railway.
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Using that logic, you go to a petrol station to catch some petrol and a space station to catch some space.

It's a railway station because it's on the railway.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
Using that logic, you go to a petrol station to catch some petrol and a space station to catch some space.

It's a railway station because it's on the railway.


Steve.
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Steve I think we are fighting a losing battle here. It is a generation thing and another example of the current trend of dumbing down. As I said in my first post we used train station only with very young children. They needed something they understood so they would know what to expect at a railway station. But now it seems that it doesn't just apply to pre-school kids, a lot of adults seem to need to need to hear the word train otherwise they might end up going to the wrong kind of station. As I say dumbing down.
 
Jack Flash said:
Steve I think we are fighting a losing battle here. It is a generation thing and another example of the current trend of dumbing down. As I said in my first post we used train station only with very young children. They needed something they understood so they would know what to expect at a railway station. But now it seems that it doesn't just apply to pre-school kids, a lot of adults seem to need to need to hear the word train otherwise they might end up going to the wrong kind of station. As I say dumbing down.
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dumbing down??:thinking:

it's simply a colloquialism!
 
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