B1 – Intermediate
London St. Pancras is ranked as the best railway station in Europe. Most of the train stations on the top ten are from Germany.
Read the article and find out more about some of the best train stations in Europe.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2002/200225-railway-station-1.html
Discussion Questions:
- Have you ever been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe? Which one? Describe it. Talk about your experience there.
- What is the best and worst train station you have ever been at?
- What do you think of the train stations in your city/country with respect to their ease of access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms?
- How often do workers at the train stations in your country go on strike?
- Do you enjoy the shops, restaurants, and services located near the train stations?
13 replies on “Best Railway Station in Europe”
1. I never have the opportunity to being in one of the best train station
2. I’ve only been to one station in Barcelona and was very chaotyc because was a train station and also a subway station
3. i think that Spain has a very good train station they are clean and have very good signaling so you don´t get loss, the people is not always friendlins but that is not a problem for me
4. I don’t know how often they go on strike, but last Christmas they say that tehy go on one and because these were sensitive dates, the government quickly agreed.
5. I don’t joy this shops beacause I think they are more expensive than other shops outside the station
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1. I have not had the opportunity to visit any of those stations.
2. The best, in Manassas Train Station, in Virginia (USA). It seemed to me a real train station like in the West.
The worst … I don’t remember seeing a train station that I considered bad …
3. I think that today, the vast majority meet all the accessibility requirements and services that may be had, perhaps something unfavorable is that everything is highly computerized and there are people who do not have much facility or knowledge about technology, therefore I think there is a lack of human personnel.
4. I can’t say exactly, but … 2 or 3 times a year maybe …
5. If I go well in advance I may take a look, but this is not usually the case.
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Have you ever been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe? Which one? Unfortunatelly no
What is the best and worst train station you have ever been at? The best station is Grand Central Terminal in New York. I don’t think there is a bad train station since each one has its history and its functionalities.
What do you think of the train stations in your city/country with respect to their ease of access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms? In Madrid we have two great train station, Atocha and Chamartín. Both are very old, but they are constantly undergoing repairs to make them functional and safe.
How often do workers at the train stations in your country go on strike? Two or three times a year, it is a fact.
Do you enjoy the shops, restaurants, and services located near the train stations? Yes, but they are very expensive and generally full of people.
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1. Have you ever been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe? Which one? Describe it. Talk about your experience there.
From the top ten best train stations in Europe I’ve only been in Berlin train station. I remember it was big, clean and with clear indications.
Despite being living in London I didn’t visit St. Pancras Train Station.
2. What is the best and worst train station you have ever been at?
The best train station I have ever been could be Copenaghen train station. I remember it very clean, modern and with clear indications and the worst Bangkok train station. I remembered it crowded and chaotic.
3.What do you think of the train stations in your city/country with respect to their ease of access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms?
I believe they are quite good taking in account this issues although some of them would need a renovation, like Sants Station in Barcelona.
4.How often do workers at the train stations in your country go on strike? I don’t know but I believe not much often because I don’t remember a train station workers strike. Probably underground workers
from Barcelona have gone much times on strike.
5. Do you enjoy the shops, restaurants, and services located near the train stations?
Not really because I usually don’t have much time to spend in train stations and restaurants use to be a little expensive.
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1.Have you ever been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe? Which one? Describe it. Talk about your experience there.
Yes, I have been in one of the top ten best train stations in Europe. I was in London St Pancras twice. The first time when I did the interrail (20 years ago) and the second time in a travel with my husband (in 2010). It is the most beautiful train station that I’ve ever seen. There is a combination of history and modernization.
2.What is the best and worst train station you have ever been at?
The best train station I have ever been is St Pancras station. The worst train station is a station in Lerida (Catalonia, Spain). It didn’t seem very safe.
3.What do you think of the train stations in your city/country with respect to their ease of access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms?
I think in my country, in general, the access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms are good. And more the bigger the city is.
4.How often do workers at the train stations in your country go on strike?
I think that the workers at the train stations in my country do not go on strike. I don’t remember at this moment the last time.
5.Do you enjoy the shops, restaurants, and services located near the train stations?
Sometimes, if I have time, I visit the shops, restaurants… but I prefer to go to other places in the city. I only use in case of having to wait for a train.
Good work writing your answers for this lesson.
Look at a better word you can use here:
There is a combination of history and modernization.
Use a better structure in this sentence:
And more the bigger the city is.
Have you ever been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe?
No, I haven’t been to any of the top ten best train stations in Europe. I have been to train stations in Europe but in Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Which one? Describe it. Talk about your experience there.
I haven’t been to any of the top ten best train stations.
What is the best and worst train station you have ever been at?
My worst experience in a train station was in Oporto (Portugal). I had to go from Oporto to Lisboa many years ago. The train station was was under renovation and it was not comfortable waiting for the train. When I took with my friend the train to Lisboa. I live my worst experience in the train, because, there was sections of train tracks damaged and we had to down the train and got a bus whit suitecases for three times. It was very umcorfotabble.
The best experiencia was in train station in Roma. We have to back to Roma because we we got the wrong wagon and it took us to the wrong city and then we went to the Trevi’s Fountain again.
What do you think of the train stations in your city/country with respect to their ease of access/cleanliness/connectivity/friendliness of staff/platforms?
I think that the train station Atocha the most important station in Madrid is not friendliness and it’s not accesible for handicapped people. Aditionally, it’s difficult to understand the correct way to the
train tracks.
How often do workers at the train stations in your country go on strike?
Do you enjoy the shops, restaurants, and services located near the train stations?
I don’t sure but I think that the workers go on strike one or two times every year.
Quite an train ride experience right there! Thanks for sharing.
Please see how you can say this part better:
When I took with my friend the train to Lisboa
.I live my worst experience in the train,because,there was sections of train tracks damaged and we had to down the train and got a bus whit suitecases for three times.> When I took the train to Lisboa with my friend, I had my worst train experience ever because there were sections of train tracks that were damaged and we had to get off the train and get on three different buses with our heavy suitcases.
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Thanks a lot. I wrote again for practice:
When I took the train to Lisboa with my friend, I had my worst train experience ever because there were sections of train tracks that were damaged and we had to get off the train and get on three different buses with our heavy suitcases.