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Hiroaki Sone · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Sendai, Japan

Hi, how are you?

When they mention a train journey, some say get to the destination "on the train," and some say "in the train." Which would you say? Which would you choose in the following?

[1] I rode (in, on) the super bullet train to Sendai.
[2] I switched my cell phone off when I rode (in, on) the train to Sendai.

Hiro/ Sendai, Japan

Hayde · Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 177 Location: Icheon, Korea

I would say "on" for both of them.

Teo · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 193 Location: Taiwan

http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnInTheTrainBus/bnqjl/Post.htm
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Thank you very much for your reply.

Hiroaki Sone · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Sendai, Japan

Thank you, both.

Yes, I speak and write in the way you mentioned; if you look at an action in the car of the train you are on in the mind's eye, you might more likely use in, might you not?

[3] I rode on a train to Sendai a few days ago. The intercom announcement repeated we should turn our mobiles off in the train.

Hiro/ Sendai, Japan