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Jerkwater

Something Rhymes with Purple

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Train Station?

Train is one of those words that has so many different meanings for the same five leters. Almost all of them go back to the same answer, which is really interesting. People who complain about it being called a train station are being a bit pedantic, because they don't complain about itbeingcalled a bus station. But what i'm intrigued by is, did you have trains of buses or carriages, before you had railway trains? Or did the train? How the word train come linked to the railways? And why was it the word train?

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