> Thinking about it I reckon I would say:
>
> "I need some petrol, I'm off to the garage."
Good point. We would also use the term "garage" here for a petrol station.
> On a Motorway I would refer to the Motorway Services or perhaps Motorway Service Station. They are
> rest stops with eating facilities, shops etc as well as petrol.
We would call them "truck stops" or "road houses".
> We have absorbed so much Australian and American phraseology, some appealing some not.
What Australian phraseology have you absorbed over there? And how could any of it not be appealing?!
> The word station, I think, we reserve pretty much for train and bus stations and until relatively recently
> it would have been only trains. Buses would be found at the bus depot.
Agreed, in part. We would refer to the place where a train stops as a "train station". However, a bus stops at a bus stop. A bus depot is where the buses stop overnight, sometimes called a terminus as well.
Mark Waddington
