That's right ; they are called simply "THE STATIONS" and all know to which Stations are being referred to.
That is quite a clever joke.
Reminds me of sabotage efforts - led by the BRITISH, of course - during World War II, which accomplished nothing
but disaster. Then it was easy for them to back out saying "Oh too bad", while European and other countries
had to bear the huge losses of infrastructure and materiel.
Not to mention, ports and other hubs of communication like ... train stations.
So maybe what went around, came around with the Irish terrorists.