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station
a place where trains or buses regularly stop:
• The town has its own railway station. • Paddington Station in west London • the bus station
terminus
the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line:
• We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus. • the railway terminus in central Calcutta
track
[ usually plural ] the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from:
• The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks.
platform
the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from:
• Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2.
ticket office
( also booking office British English ) the place at a station where tickets are sold:
• You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office.
departures board
British English ( also departure board American English ) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave:
• The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late.
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noun where trains stop ADJ. next We get off at the next station. | railway, train | metro, subway, tube, underground VERB + STATION get to, go to We got to the station just as the train was pulling out. | leave | arrive at The train arrived at Oxford Station twenty minutes late. STATION + NOUN platform PREP. at a/the ~ He got off at the same station. | in a/the ~ There's a newspaper kiosk in the station. where buses/coaches begin and end journeys ADJ. bus, coach VERB + STATION leave The coach leaves the station at 0900 hours. | arrive at PREP. at a/the ~ We waited for him at the coach station. radio/television company ADJ. radio, television/TV | foreign, local | cable, satellite | commercial VERB + STATION get, pick up, tune (in) to I can pick up a lot of foreign stations on this radio. | listen to
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