Hmm there is rail yard just like ship yard, though I think they’re used a little differently.
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niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And why isn’t a train station called a rail port?
Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Funnily enough in Russian the word for train station is Vauxhall… spelt Russian. People say that Russian engineers studying in London mistook the name of a specific underground station - Vauxhall - as the generic word for station and imported it into their language before anyone realised the mistake.
Plopp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Train station and bus station. Why isn’t it called boat station and plane station?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Because a station is a place you pull up to an leave going the same direction, and a port is a place you enter and then go back out the same way.
Airplanes come down to a port, then go back up.
Boats come into a port, then back out to sea.
Buses come into a station, then go along their way. Same as trains.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Buses come from a road and then go back to the same road, so this line of reasoning makes no sense.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The buses never leave the road. The station is on the road.
When buses pull into spaces, then back out, it’s called a bus port.
Plopp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t come here with logical arguments! :(