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sorry this is bad do not do that

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um never do that

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if you want to make it on the train

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system in England you have people love

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queuing here they love queuing 20

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minutes what the heck is going on it's

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the worst decision ever yeah they can be

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so busy and they can get delayed a lot

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and canceled what do you not like about

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trains

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definitely the train strikes I bought a

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bike for 50 Quid and I've ridden it 150

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miles to get here well because the

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trains are so bad or for no because

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they're so expensive I should have just

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took a cop

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we're polite but we don't really mean it

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150 miles no train how much would that

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have cost to do on the train

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even the even the coach would have cost

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an arm and a league I'll tell you hey

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welcome to easy English so today

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is bloody miserable so I'm gonna head

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down to Brighton train station to see

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what tips and hints that people of

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Britain have for using the British

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Railway system out to the positives and

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negatives and what to do and what not to

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do socially and practically on an

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English train here we go where are you

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going today uh going to the Finn's Park

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in London oh coming in from Stansted

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Airport into London King's cross on the

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big longest train I've ever seen for

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passengers it was huge to London yeah to

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London yeah yeah I've just go I come

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over here or London so I don't live in

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Brighton I'm going to like go to airport

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okay you got a holiday I know I'm just

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working out there are you working that

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way yeah okay uh where have you been

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today on the train or what what Journey

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are you taking um yeah farmer campus the

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Sussex University campus have you come

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from London I've come from London yeah

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my dad lives uh in London I've been

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staying with him for a few days can you

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tell me a positive about taking trains

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in Britain specifically

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um what's good about them anything

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easier yeah it's easier faster it's just

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convenience

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I don't have to pay for petrol and I

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just want one personal ticket what would

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you say are the biggest positives about

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British trains what do you like about it

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um that you can actually get anywhere

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like on the train I think the timetable

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time slot are quite

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um kind of

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uh

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uh well planned it it's fairly quick

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it's it's regular every train come back

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every half hour so if you miss if you

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miss one then like you can get the next

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one not not too far away sometimes it's

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nicer to be able to maybe drink whilst

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you're on the train

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um if that's what you're into and that's

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allowed yeah yes yeah it's allowed yeah

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yeah what's the best thing then about

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taking the train in your opinion

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just sitting there I like just sitting

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there and uh the view there's quite it's

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quite a nice um ride from London to

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Brian so I like just sitting there and

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listen to music it's quite relaxing this

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really crap about the trains

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yeah they can be so busy and they can

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get delayed and canceled

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expensive yeah expensive I bought a bike

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for 50 Quid and I've ridden it 150 miles

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to get here well because the trains are

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so bad or for no because they're so

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expensive I'm quite shocked at how much

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has gone up like the the single back

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here it was 34 quid and I usually drive

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so uh but yeah it's usually like sweat

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it used to be like 21 pounds or 22

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pounds and now yeah it's 34 pounds for a

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single yeah for a single and what's it

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what's the return I don't know I should

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have got a I got a single up there and

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how much was a single that was 20 pounds

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and then to come back yeah singles 34

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pounds my God yeah so I've really

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shouldn't have gone to London because

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I've got to save money at the moment 150

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miles no train how much would that it

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cost to do on the train

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even the even the coach would have cost

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an arm and a league I'll tell you what

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do you not like about trains in Britain

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uh definitely the train strikes yeah I

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strike a lot which is annoying when I

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need to like come home and things like

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that from okay and they are quite

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expensive very like if you're going up

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north say from here like it's so much

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money like the surface canceling like

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straight ah yeah of course oh how did

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you cook when there was all the strikes

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how did you get to work uh buses

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I don't I don't I can't really go to

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work if they strive oh wow okay just

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have to like get a day off or something

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what do you not like about uh English

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trains oh the cancellations

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cancellations are annoying all the time

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cancellations

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um and there's always a strikes and

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stuff so yeah it's not reliable system

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at the moment it's not very complex they

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could update yeah

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so if it wasn't super duper expensive

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you'd use a train a lot more oh yeah

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definitely yeah yeah 100 plus

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Replacement Service I was gonna say rare

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replacement is like the worst for four

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hours especially late at night or you

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just want to go home and then they're

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like oh it's canceled no one tonight and

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it's like two buses for an entire two

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buses

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it's like personally get travel sick

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easily oh no so I I don't want to take

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any like train replacement bus do you

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have like like a little Insider tip or

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secret for like trains would you what

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advice would you give to someone who's

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like come into the UK who's never taking

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a train

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um

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always let the people who are on the

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train offer you before you go on because

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you can get some really angry people who

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can end up getting angry at you if you

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don't let them off first right that's

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good actually yeah we love curing I mean

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we don't really but we pretend we sort

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of you know

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we're polite but we don't really mean it

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I think it would be a better thing to

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get your tickets online yeah right yeah

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yeah I'll say usually on the app it kind

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of tells you what platform you're going

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to I don't say you might maybe book

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online as well okay

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um I think it's cheaper as well how does

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that work you have to go onto a website

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and then well you can get like the train

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line app and it's quite simple on there

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do you get discounts uh yeah like we get

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the 1617 saver discount which is like 50

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off so that's good now they're like

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cultural things you've noticed on the

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trains that you have to be aware of the

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non-brit no one's very talkative

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reach you read the paper be polite and

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Nod along and stuff like that and don't

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talk to other people pretend you're

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looking at paper

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are there social things you need to be

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aware of when taking the train in

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England taking the train from London by

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four or five is a big no

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there's people working to come back

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homes four trains probably wouldn't find

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a place to sit down until you're 10

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minutes from your destination always buy

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a second yes when you're getting on the

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train don't try and skip it yeah I know

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I was coming back from watching them one

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today

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put my train ticket in another pocket

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and I had to pay 80 pounds it's fine

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when the ticket was like 12. so oh

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that's always yeah that's all right you

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can find little tricks and tips

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sometimes there are some yeah you could

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see it our local station at home doesn't

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have any barriers

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if you work it if you work the times

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correctly yeah what is this video

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becoming yeah I'm sorry yeah I'm

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teaching all of your students sorry this

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is bad do not do that

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um never do that

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in England we like to not talk it seems

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yeah public transport which is bad

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thanks for watching this week's video

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let us know your experience using the

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British Railway system and as always

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we'll see you next week

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