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How should I say "that's my train" (when waiting at a station)? My guess would
be:

> これはしんかんせんです。

I'm pretty much a total beginner so simpler expressions are preferred!
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"That's my train"
You're close -- your これは新幹線{しんかんせん}です sample simply says, _"This is a
shinkansen."_ You're missing the _"my"_ part. Adding that in, we get これは
**私{わたし}の** 新幹線です。 → _"This is **my** shinkansen."_

**Note:** This is for the bullet train. For a regular train, swap out the word
新幹線 for the word 電車{でんしゃ}.
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> 「これ **は** 新幹線{しんかんせん}です。」

There are a couple of items that I would like to point out.

First, the particle choice. The **_specific_** train that you have been
waiting for has just arrived, yes? You are not pointing a finger to just any
random Shinkansen train, right?

**Then, that is definitely a が-situation, not a は-situation.** If you learned
only one thing from my answer today, I hope it would be this (instead of
forming the Japanese equivalent of "That's my train.")

Moving on to how to say "That's my train." naturally. The best tip I could
give you is to **not** translate it word for word. If you do that, you will
end up forming a sentence that virtually no native speakers would use in this
situation at the station.

> Needless to say, that unnatural sentence would be 「これ **が**
> 私{わたし}の新幹線{しんかんせん}です。」.

Excellent particle choice, but practically no native speakers would say that
in the situation we are talking about. Generally speaking, if you translate
English sentences literally into Japanese, you will have pretty weird-sounding
Japanese sentences. "That's my train." is one of those sentences.

The sentences and phrases that native speakers would often use in the given
situations include:

(I am mostly imagining a male speaker here.)

「あっ、電車{でんしゃ} **が** 来た{きた}。」

「おっ、来た来た。[乗]{の}ろう。」、「おっ、やっと来た（か、よ、ね、ぞ, etc.）。」 ← **_You do not even have to
use "train" because you know exactly what is coming_**. It is not a bus, a
taxi or a dog that you have been waiting for.

「おっ、あれだ。」、「あっ、あれだ。やっと来た。」

「これ/あれ **が** 乗るやつだよ。」

「これ/あれ **が** ボクの乗るやつだ。」← In case you must use a pronoun for some reason.

Note: 「やつ」 can be replaced with nominalizer 「の」 or the actual noun 「電車」 or
「新幹線」.
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You can say simply "あれが私の乗る電車です。"
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