deˈpartures ˌboard noun [countable] a big screen at an airport or station that shows the times at which planes or trains leave
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station a place where trains or buses regularly stop:
The town has its own railway station.
Paddington Station in west London
the bus stationterminus the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line:
We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus.
the railway terminus in central Calcuttatrack [usually plural] the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from:
The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks.platform the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from:
Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2.ticket office (
also booking office British English) the place at a station where tickets are sold:
You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office.departures board British English (
also departure board American English) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave:
The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲