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Can I survive the longest regional train journey in the UK or will it all get too much?

I'm here at Norwich Railway Station and I'm about to get on a train which is about to take me to Liverpool.

I walked into the lovely station building and found the Liverpool bound train which looked busy.

And this is the train that I'm going to be on for the next six hours, let's get in and sit down.

My home for the day was this three coach diesel unit which soon departed the UK's easternmost station.

having departed at 11 :52.

Quite a journey is ahead.

The 20 year old train roared through the countryside as I contemplated my life choices.

So currently we're travelling on the Breckland Line, one of many that we're going to be traversing on this ridiculous train journey.

When I say this journey is long, I am not joking, especially for a regional train which is only three coaches long.

We're going to be travelling for 254 miles and calling at 15 stations.

I did have a few challenges planned for the journey, one of which was getting food, another being a train race and the third being this.

as a challenge throughout the video I want to get out at every station.

So this is Thetford, let's do that.

And this is Thetford Railway Station, home of Thetford Forest, back into the train we go.

We're now approaching Shippey Hill which is one of the least used stations in the whole of the UK.

We're passing it now and only one train stops there every day on a weekday and two on a Saturday.

I wanted to start my second challenge which was getting some food delivered to my train from my mate Danny.

Hello sir.

Hello, can you hear me?

Stockport Railway Station.

A pizza?

Any particular flavour of pizza?

Yes, if you could do a margarita pizza that would be absolutely fantastic.

Okay, I will be there in about four hours time.

Perfect, pizza secured.

See you in a bit, bye bye.

Before too long we were on the approach to the second calling point as I spotted a stunning cathedral and marina.

So here we are at Ely Railway Station, the train's about to go the other way, which is jolly good.

With both stations so far being successfully visited, I felt quite jolly myself and had some crisps.

And we are now travelling on the Herawood Line which stretches between Ely and Peterborough.

We are racing through it and then after that we'll be on the East Coast Main Line.

But now I felt it was time for another challenge.

So on this train we've had several people this whole time.

We've got Finn here, Clive there and Tom there who is my cameraman.

Now we're going to send him on an adventure on an LNER train to see

if he can beat us from Peterborough to Grantham.

Are you ready?

Yeah.

We all discussed the plan and Tom seemed happy enough to be because I'd quite like to go home, so yeah, I'll be good.

Right, let's give it a go.

Right, so I've said goodbye to my cameraman, he's on the platform and here's hoping that we see him again at Grantham.

OK, so that's my train there.

I'm now just stuck in Peterborough.

Okay, so there's my train coming in now.

Let's hope I make it on time.

So what's actually happened is that Tom has gone to Peterborough and he's now going to get on an LNER service, which is going to very hopefully go past ours, arrive into Grantham nine minutes before us,

because we're on the slow line and he would be on the fast line.

Now, of course, being in the UK, anything could happen on these railway lines.

So I'm sitting here with my fingers fully crossed.

Okay, so I've made it onto the train now.

We're just about to leave.

Let's hope I make it.

We do have a live time update.

Apparently he is early by two minutes.

This is very good LNER, I trust you.

We're just leaving Peterborough now and there's a luxury on this train which I don't have on the East Midlands one.

I'm gonna go and abuse it.

The good news is that he's left a minute early and that's all the news that I currently have.

Okay, so the reason why I'll make it ten minutes quicker than them to Grantham is

because this train is an intercity train.

It's an LNER Azuma that can go 125 miles an hour.

Whereas there, East Midlands Railway Class 170 can only go 100 miles an hour

and it's on diesel traction so it accelerates a lot slower.

On his LNER jolly, Tom had managed to find a cafe bar.

I'm on the big lovely Intestica train now and I've just got myself a coffee.

And as we tracked him I saw a very welcome sight.

Right, we're about to see an LNER Azuma roll past, there's Tom, he's in that train somewhere, probably.

I suppose it's going to Lincoln, he's only going to Grantham, here we go.

Tom was oblivious to him overtaking us as he drank some coffee, which meant that his confidence was taking a hit.

I am actually getting a little bit worried here because I haven't seen their train passed.

make it there on time because I do not want to be stuck in Grantham.

On our slow train I enjoyed the views of Lincolnshire as Tom was still firmly ahead.

I'm just pulling into Grantham now with my coffee in hand.

We've been travelling at 125 miles an hour in this train, which is a lot quicker than theirs.

So hopefully I've beaten them, but let's try and check it out.

Okay, so it turns out I have beaten them because the train's not arrived yet, it's coming in a few minutes.

And it wasn't long before our race was over as Finn greeted Tom on the platform.

The man has been on a mission, he is back, how are you?

Good, and I've got a coffee.

With the race over, it was back to regular business on our slow train.

So we are on the Nottingham to Grantham line, we've just gone through Bingham at Snail's pace.

We passed over an abandoned railway line and the River Trent before seeing Eastcroft Depot at Nottingham, where EMR maintain their regional fleet.

And here at Nottingham our train has expanded, so now we've got five coaches rather than three, and we're now about to head off to Sheffield.

As coupling trains together is a lengthy process, I sent Tom off to Starbucks where he bought another coffee.

And it's delicious.

Gone for a nice little walk, a bit of exercise, stretching out the legs.

Let's get back in!

At 2 :15 we departed our fifth stop.

I've just been down the train, I've got big news everybody, there is a trolley cart in the train.

Before the train got absolutely packed, I thought it was time for a carriage tour.

So we do have seats, these are turquoise because they are ex -Southern,

so they came from the train company Southern to East Midlands Railway and they will be repainted when these trains are refurbished, which will eventually happen, maybe possibly someday.

Above me there are luggage racks where we've put all of our stuff.

And we do have a table which is We've got all of our stuff on it, including a slightly upset cameraman, but that doesn't matter because we've got some coffee.

The train is by no means new, as we found out: This armrest is not very good.

What do I mean by that?

Well, if I let go, it falls.

Our train had at this point travelled along five railway lines, and we were now on the Midland Main Line, so I ticked off our sixth station.

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And here we are, at Alfredton.

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Lovely station, that's not how it's pronounced.

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It's pronounced Alfredton.

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But what about that food trolley that I had spotted?

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So I have procured an East Midlands Railway tea and also an East Midlands Railway croissant.

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Here we've got a branded tissue as well, so let's tuck in and see what I make of it.

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Firstly, it's the East Midlands tea.

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Hot, hot, hot, but quite nice actually.

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And now we've got the croissant, which I'm sure will be absolutely delicious.

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Very nice.

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Having travelled further up the Midland Main Line, I let the local take the reins.

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So here is Chesterfield, it's got three platforms, although platform three over there is very rarely used.

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There's a variety, very interesting things you can do here at Chesterfield, but the best one of those things is to leave.

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So I have just seen a northern train go past, which means we are now firmly in Northern Territory, that is South Yorkshire, and we're only going to go north from here on out.

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We had clearly left the flat landscapes of East Anglia now, as there were hills.

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into Sheffield, which is the capital city of South Yorkshire and apparently it's going to be very busy, lots of people are going to get on.

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Our train crawled into the steel city and I ticked it off by disembarking.

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And here we are at Sheffield, it is quite busy, there's lots of people getting on, but this is where the train reverses, we're about to head back down the line and into the stunningly scenic Peak District.

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We waited at Sheffield for a bit before reversing again onto our 7th railway line, which certainly had some elevation.

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So here we are in the Peak District on the Hope Valley Line which passes through many smaller, very nice stations including one called Hope.

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And I sure do hope that we get to Liverpool on time.

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The scenery on this section was marvellous as we reached our fourth hour of travel.

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And we are now approaching a lovely little station called Edel which is the start of the Pennine Way, that is a walking route and it is also in the centre of the Peak District.

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much, much better than the Breckland Line which we were on at the start of this journey.

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But all was not well on board the train.

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I feel like I've been on the train for far too long.

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This is starting to become less pleasant and more like torture.

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Still, we had to press on.

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We are soon going to be leaving Derbyshire and entering Greater Manchester, so we're going to be calling up Manchester Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Stockport before that where we're going to get some pizzas from Danny.

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While we were making our way to Stockport, my friend Danny had found a Domino's, got us our pizza, made his way to the station and was waiting for us on the platform.

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We've just spotted Van Magno, Danny on the platform.

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He's got two pizzas and he's about to come in.

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So here we've got Danny's special surprise for us, which is of course, pizzas.

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Look at that.

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Look at these lovely slices of pure, slightly cold joy.

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Right, we're stuck at Stockport, but I have given Dan, Finn, Clive and Tom their pizzas.

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So-- Let's go on to Liverpool.

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The pizzas brought the morale in the train up as we all tucked in and before too long we were moving again.

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There's still quite a bit left to go, we've picked up a delay at Stockport, I'm thoroughly, thoroughly exhausted but we press on.

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We were overtaken by a northern train as we made our way into our ninth stop.

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We are now arriving into Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and here we are, arriving into it a little bit delayed.

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Unfortunately, I had failed one of my challenges of getting off at every station, as at Manchester Piccadilly, the sheer volume of people on the platform prevented me from getting any fresh air.

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We have now stopped at one of the other Manchester stations, Manchester Oxford Road, situated next to Oxford Road.

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It is a station with lots of people on it, more so than Piccadilly.

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I would have thought, I'm really losing it, can we please just get to Liverpool already?

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We left the bustling Oxford Road on one of the most congested bits of railway in the UK, two track Castlefield corridor.

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But it wasn't just trains that I saw out of the window, as we had travelled so far north that Manchester's bright yellow trams made an appearance.

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As we trundled through Salford I gauged everyone's mood.

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"Hi guys, I'm feeling really good because I've got pizza." "Yep, I'm feeling very good.

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The day's gone quicker than I expected, and it's been great fun." "I still feel quite sprightly to be fair,

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I think it's just the community keeping me going at the moment." "I've only been on this train for about 15 minutes, and I'm already shattered." "I've been on this train for about 5 hours, and I'm quite shattered, doing a lot better than me.

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At Warrington I stepped out of the torture train to have a stretch, but unfortunately I had to get back in.

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We have unlocked a new county having crossed into Merseyside just a little bit ago

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and we're making our way to the very capital of that place, sitting at the mouth of the River Mersey.

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The journey was getting debilitatingly boring now and I was losing the plot.

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That's a 195, that's a northern train because we're firmly on the northern network and also the Mersey Rail network, hence why we can see some electrification up there,

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and also on the tracks which are 3rd rail.

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We passed another depot which was home to a yellow train, and arrived into Liverpool South Parkway where Tom had a little bit of a jog.

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And having gone past Liverpool South Parkway, one of the newest stations on this railway route, we are now approaching Liverpool Lime Street, which is going to be the very end of our journey,

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meaning that we would have covered those 250 or so miles, and I'm really looking forward to it ending, truth be told.

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As our journey comes to an end, I'm feeling quite exhausted.

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We've covered a lot of distance practically around the whole country, from the easternmost city in the UK to one of the western ones.

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I'm looking forward to it ending, I really am.

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Please, let it end.

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I can see lots of houses here in the Liverpool suburbs, which means that Liverpool -Lime Street is inevitable.

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The end of the journey was spectacular as we went through the Edge Hill Cutting, which was built in 1830.

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you you you So here we are at Liverpool Lime Street, the oldest mainline railway terminus in the world, which is still operational.

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The train is behind me, I've just survived six hours on that with all of these lovely people.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Can I survive the LONGEST Regional Train in the UK? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : train, station, railway, pizza, Liverpool. Cette vidéo contient 169 phrases et 2542 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 12:18. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 207 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. Seuls 81 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
cameraman nom	/ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/	caméraman, cadreur
depart verbe	/dɪˈpɑɹt/	partir
croissant nom	/kɹəˈsɑnt/	croissant
overtake verbe	/əʊ̯vəːˈteɪ̯k/	dépasser, doubler
shatter verbe	/ˈʃætɚ/	fracasser, réduire en miettes
trolley nom		trolley, perche
tuck verbe	/tʌk/	rentrer
pronounce verbe	/pɹəˈnaʊns/	déclarer
tick nom	/tɪk/	tique
exhaust verbe	/ɪɡˈzɔst/	épuiser
depot nom	/ˈdiːpoʊ/	dépôt
diesel nom	/ˈdisəl/	diésel, gazole
thoroughly adverbe	/ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/	absolument, complètement
torture nom	/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/	torture
armrest nom	/ˈɑɹmˌɹɛst/	accoudoir, accotoir

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Sens
go past verbe	passer, dépasser
go through verbe	traverser
look forward to verbe	avoir hâte de, attendre avec impatience
call up verbe	sélectionner
find out verbe	découvrir, savoir
pass through verbe	traverser
pick up verbe	soulever
sit down verbe	s'asseoir

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

Right, let's give it a go.
Let's hope I make it on time.
We're just about to leave.
Let's hope I make it.
What do I mean by that?

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	we've had · I've said · has gone
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	train which is · Hill which is · challenge which was
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	be stuck · will be repainted · were overtaken

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 72 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, we're, we've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, birthplace /ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, ninth /naɪnθ/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: shatter /ˈʃætɚ/, electrification /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfɪkeɪʃən/, refurbish /ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/, traction /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/, elevation /ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: cameraman /ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/, electrification /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfɪkeɪʃən/, margarita /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/, spectacular /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: jolly /ˈd͡ʒɑli/, torture /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/, congest /kənˈd͡ʒɛst/, luggage /ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: cameraman /ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/, depart /dɪˈpɑɹt/, croissant /kɹəˈsɑnt/, pronounce /pɹəˈnaʊns/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/

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Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme cameraman, depart, croissant.

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