[QLD] Airport Railway - What's in a name?

[Leigh Kirwan <lalkirwa@redback.ins.gu.edu.au>]

Where does Airtrain's Brisbane Airport railway go?

Trains leaving Robina show "AIRPORT" as the destination, and not
"BRISBANE AIRPORT".  (Could be confusing as it is much closer to the
Gold Coast's Coolangatta Airport where the line is to be extended).

The city station indicators in Brisbane show trains to "BRISBANE
AIRPORT"

The actual station name signs at the terminus show "DOMESTIC STATION",
even though the announcement I heard on the train said "DOMESTIC
TERMINAL"

QR's public timetable booklet lists the airport stations as "AIRPORT
DOMESTIC" and "AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL". The new system maps also use this
terminology.

That's FOUR names for the same terminus.  I'm not sure what tickets
show.  Maybe there is a fifth term!

The only other cases I know in Queensland where different names are used
for the one place are city station indicators showing "GOLD COAST" for
Robina trains.  (A bit confusingly, the actual train destination shows
"ROBINA") and  before Airtrain opened, trains from the Gold Coast showed
"BRISBANE" until Beenleigh when it was usually changed to "BOWEN HILLS".

In the days of DEL roll-around destination signs, country trains heading
to Brisbane showed "ROMA STREET", but electric passenger trains from the
north, at least, now show "BRISBANE".  However, in the Edmonson card
ticket era, "BRISBANE"  meant Central station in the suburban area (now
always Brisbane Central), and Roma Street was "ROMA STREET".
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Leigh John KIRWAN  L.Kirwan@mailbox.gu.edu.au
Lecturer in Japanese
School of Languages & Linguistics, Faculty of Arts,  Griffith University
Gold Coast Campus
Parklands Drive, Southport  4215.
PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, Queensland, Australia 9726.
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