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[Rod]

Ah - of course it would. A station of the cross. :-)

[neverwas]

Well they were known as stations when I used to wander around them looking at the Mud & Dust stock in Maidstone, Chatham etc in the 1950s and 60s.

And the OED's happy enough with station.

Perhaps it was different in the big smoke.

[Owain]

A terminal has to be the end of the route. If buses pass through the bus station then it's not a terminal.

Bus node?

Bus depot is where the buses live overnight and where the drivers get their tea.

Owain

[geoff]

no that's a bus tepot

[Bruce]

There is no such thing as a "bus terminal". A "bus depot" is a place where buses are maintained and/or stored, and usually has no public access of any kind. Nice try, though!

By the way, both Chatham and Maidstone Bus Stations are called exactly that: bus stations. Official ...

The one in Chatham is apparently due for relocation from the Pentagon Centre to a site at Globe Lane/Military Road. Medway Council consulted on its relocation proposals and reported on the consultation in November 2007.

The Cabinet's report on the consultation is entitled "CHATHAM BUS STATION PROPOSALS - RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE" and contains 30 instances of the term "bus station".

It's a .pdf document:

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

Yes there is. It's where the bus route terminates and the driver sits with his feet up waiting for the next scheduled run to start in the opposite direction. In the older days it was where the driver and clippy could be found upstairs, doing the nasty.

[Bruce]

I think you mean a "bus terminus".

I repeat, there is no such thing as a "bus terminal". But you can invent the term if you like. ;-)

[Paul Matthews]

Labrador?

[Paul Matthews]

To be useful it does nor *need* to be 24/7, just open a long time. Most supermarkets are douing 12 hours at a shift most days. That would be a big improvement.

Order something, get reference from order. Go to local Tesco/Sainsbury/Coop or whatever after noon the next day to collect.

[Rod]

Unfortunately, for me at least, going to Tesco/Sainsbury/ involves car journey plus parking. So the cost in petrol and/or parking charges would make that hopeless. And that is aside from the supermarkets almost all being in or on the other side of town - hence traffic. Petrol stations sound better - but in reality, many of them are at the supermarkets... :-)

That is the appeal of an organisation with lots of small local branches. Hopefully walkable distance and even if not, often free for very short term parking.