"V této stanici musíte vystoupit."
Translation:You must get off at this station.
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Why is 'you must alight at this station' not accepted. The use of 'alight' in the UK would be better English than 'get off' I have reported it but just wondered.
I doubt there is a specific reason except that the creator missed it. I am not him/her, but I haven't heard this word yet and I did live in the UK.
The whole verb "to get" and it's derivatives, e.g., "got", "gotten", "get on", "get off", are generally used by the majority of the population with a smaller vocabulary in place of a plurality of preferred verbs. It is possible, and encouraged, to eradicate "to get" and derivatives from written English.
Is there a difference between nádrazí and stanici. Could the latter be used for trains? I would only use tation' for trains, otherwise I would use 'stop'
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Why isn't "vystupovat" used here? Is it because getting off the train isn't a repeating action?
The Czech sentence here is about getting off for your current ride. That does not happen repeatedly. Even when discussing some future commute, you would use vystoupit / meaning once in every ride. Vystupovat could probably be forced somehow, but probably in some other wording.
Vystupovat works best when discussing the process of getting of.
Až budete vystupovat - When you are getting off (meaning still on the train)
Až vystoupíte - When you get off (when you are off the train)
A conductor at the final station says: "Vystupovat!" However, that is idiomatic. The voice in the loudspeaker says: "Prosíme vystupte.".
Also in negative sentences you are more likely to use the imperfective:
Tady vystupovat nesmíte!
Tady vystoupit nesmíte!
mean pretty much the same. At least when considering the current ride.