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Default OT - the evolving English language

"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
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gareth wrote:
"Phil L" wrote in message
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I think 'train station' is a corrrect terminology, that is, it's a
station
where trains are accessed, like a police station is where the police can
be contacted. 'Railway' is irrelevant because you can't access a railway
without a train


And, indeed, the railway itself is stationary wherever you encounter it.


Unless it's on a ferry, of course.


But there would be only rails on a ferry, and not a way; by the same token,
a tarmacced car parking space is not a road.