On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote:

I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It
will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned.

If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line,
what would you call a coach station?

I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you
should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways.

The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach*
Station in Birmingham.


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MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote:

I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It
will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned.

If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line,
what would you call a coach station?

I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you
should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways.

The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach*
Station in Birmingham.

Why is that in any way surprising?

On 03/09/2019 23:43, Recliner wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote:

I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It
will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned.

If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line,
what would you call a coach station?

I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you
should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways.

The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach*
Station in Birmingham.

Why is that in any way surprising?


Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses
buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to
want to call coach stations bus stations as well.

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On 03/09/2019 23:43, Recliner wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote:

I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It
will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned.

If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green
Line,
what would you call a coach station?

I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you
should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways.

The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach*
Station in Birmingham.

Why is that in any way surprising?


Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses
buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to want
to call coach stations bus stations as well.

Don't know about elsewhere

but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of what I
would call coaches on their the single decker routes

made getting on and off a full bus rather slow

tim







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In message , at 19:01:30 on Wed, 4 Sep 2019,
tim... remarked:

Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call
buses buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people
seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well.

Don't know about elsewhere

but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of
what I would call coaches on their the single decker routes

Having used them myself, they are just single-decker buses.

made getting on and off a full bus rather slow

Ditto bendy-buses with the centre doors sealed off (for whatever
reason).
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Roland Perry

On 04/09/2019 17:28, MissRiaElaine wrote:

A lot of people seem to
want to call coach stations bus stations as well.

There's no obvious difference between the structures - you'd be hard
pushed to tell them apart unless the vehicles were present.

In America they seem to say "Greyhound bus" where we would say "coach".
I imagine all of their coach stations are called bus stations.

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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:01:30 on Wed, 4 Sep 2019,
tim... remarked:

Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses
buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to
want to call coach stations bus stations as well.

Don't know about elsewhere

but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of what I
would call coaches on their the single decker routes

Having used them myself, they are just single-decker buses.

before 1989 - when "Barton Busses" ceased to exist? I see that it was
actually called Barton Transport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Transport

tim