mind the gap

English

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mind the gap

  1. (rail transport) Be careful of the gap between the vehicle and the platform it is near, in boarding or alighting due to the wide gaps between the train and platform that are caused by curved tracks and platforms in some stations.
    • 2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants:
      Don't tell me to mind the gap / I want my fucking money back!
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 220:
      I once interviewed the man who made the first 'Mind the Gap' announcement: the one that reverberated for about thirty years on the Central Line at Bank, on the Bakerloo at Waterloo, and on the northbound Northern Line at Embankment.

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