[Vocabulary] "filling station" in BrE

[nyota]

Is filling station also used in BrE or is it strictly petrol station?

 

[Raymott]

Is filling station also used in BrE or is it strictly petrol station?

It's a petrol station or a service station, not a filling station in Aus - and of course, never a gas station. I think that would apply also to Britain, but someone can verify it.

 

[nyota]

Thanks Raymott. So what do you do when you get to the petrol station? You

fuel up?
fill up?
tank up?
refuel?
get fuel/ petrol?

 

[engee30]

Is filling station also used in BrE or is it strictly petrol station?

To my knowledge, filling station is the same as petrol station in the UK.

 

[Raymott]

Thanks Raymott. So what do you do when you get to the petrol station? You

fuel up?
fill up?
tank up?
refuel?
get fuel/ petrol?

"Fill up" was the usual term used in the days when people could afford to do that. "Get petrol" is a neutral way of saying it.

 

[nyota]

"Fill up" was the usual term used in the days when people could afford to do that.

;-)