Buffet, carriages, compartment, corridor, couchette, engine, platform, refreshments, restaurant car, sleeper, station, track

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 638.

You are going to read someone's account of a train journey in India. What do you think it was like? Think about the stations, the facilities on the train, the scenery, and the other passengers. Read the account to see if you were right. Complete the gaps with words from the list

Look at this list of words to do with rail travel. Check that you know what they mean.

LEAD-IN

TRAVELLING BY TRAIN, CAR AND COACH

UNIT 9

Buffet, carriages, compartment, corridor, couchette, engine, platform, refreshments, restaurant car, sleeper, station, track, coach, luggage office, waiting room, lost property office, through train, single (return) ticket, sleeper, booking office, inquiry office (information bureau), snack bar.

I remember the journey so clearly. The 1_____________ in Delhi was hot and crowded with thousands of people: taxi and rickshaw drivers, boys selling strange items of food, men selling carpets, and a million other things. The heat and the choking steam made us thirsty and hungry, so we found a sort of 2___________ and went inside for some 3 ____________. After a while, we returned to the heaving masses and stood on the 4 ____________ as the train pulled in. There was almost a fight to get on, but we managed to climb aboard one of the 5 ____________, fight our way down the narrow 6 ___________, and find a 7 __________which wasn't too crowded. The journey was hot but exciting, with delicious smells from the open fires in the kitchens next to the 8 __________ and fantastic scenery passing by as the 9 _________ pulled us across the plains of India. We leaned out of the windows in search of fresher air. The 10 ___________stretched before us − two metal lines running into an endless distance. That evening we rested at Agra under the shadow of the Taj Mahal before boarding a 11 ____________ for a night journey further south. We slept in a 12 __________, the seats converting into narrow beds, and chatted to the early hours, our words full of the romance and excitement of our Indian adventure.