Transport announcements

Transport announcements

Listen to some transport announcements to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

A

The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 12.20 to Bristol Temple Meads, calling at Reading, Oxford and Bristol Parkway. Platform 2 for the 12.20 to Bristol. First class is in the rear carriage.


B

This is a platform announcement for passengers for the 12.20 service to Bristol Temple Meads. This train is delayed by approximately 8 minutes. The train will now depart from Platform 9. Passengers for the 12.20 train to Bristol, please make your way to Platform 9.


C

Passengers for Flight EB380 to Paris please make your way to Gate 13 for boarding. Gate 13 for flight EB380 to Paris. Please have your passports and boarding passes ready. Your flight is ready to board.


D

This is a London Underground service to Liverpool Street. The next station is Liverpool Street. Upon arrival, the first set of doors will not open. Customers in the first carriage, please move towards the rear doors to leave the train. The next station is Liverpool Street. Change here for Central Line, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line and Metropolitan Line and Main Line Suburban rail services. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform. This train terminates at Redbridge.

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Average: 4.1 (56 votes)

Hello Parisa

In the context of travelling by train, 'to call at' means 'to stop in'. 'to call' can mean 'to visit' -- see the sixth entry (in purple) in the Cambridge Dictionary entry. 

All the best

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by S.S on Mon, 20/04/2020 - 16:53

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I often travel by train because it is closer than plane.

Submitted by Lauracastanos on Wed, 15/04/2020 - 02:47

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when I worked and was in my city Medellin, every day

Submitted by Daudau0601 on Wed, 01/04/2020 - 16:09

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i have not ever travel by plane but i have ever traveled by train. i don't remember that feeling when i sit in the train but i think that is so excited

Submitted by yuper on Wed, 01/04/2020 - 11:27

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Anybody here could explain this sentence for me: "Change here for Central Line, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line and Metropolitan Line and Main Line Suburban rail services". I don't understand what is "line" in this sentence. I think it's a rail to another station, right? Thank you.

Hello yuper,

Underground train networks (metro systems or the Tube in London) are organised into lines which run from one point to another with stations along the way. A journey might be all on one line, or it might involve changing lines, which you can do at certain stations where the lines meet.

You can see a map (diagramme) of the London Underground network on this page. The lines are in different colours.

 

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by crept aurelie on Sat, 28/03/2020 - 09:39

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I love travel and I travel a lot. my travel often with train is three to four times a year from Paris to see my family. I take a plane two times each year, one time to go to Corsica and one time to go trough the isle of the world.

Submitted by Eswar on Wed, 18/03/2020 - 15:43

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thoroughly i would love to travel by train from Delhi to Mumbai. Generally it takes 2 hours of journey. in that journey i would love make friends .and it's very entertaining for me.