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''Cause I'm already gone..."''|'''[[The Fray]]''' "Vienna" }}
The classic parting of two lovers at the train station.
The two [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] are saying goodbye at the Train Station: who knows if they will ever see each other again. As Train starts to pull out of the station, the lover staying behind runs alongside to keep his lover in view as long as possible, while the lover on the train either leans out the window or is pressed up against the glass.
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* The ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]: 2nd Raid'' OVA used this at the end. Tessa confesses her love to Sagara as he's leaning out of a plane taking off. The music swells romantically, and is then subverted when Sagara mishears and thinks Tessa is admitting to being an alcoholic. Tessa is not amused.
* This comes up at the end of both ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' movies.
* In ''[[Honey and Clover]]'', Hagumi says goodbye to Takemoto when he is about to leave Tokyo by train after his graduation. Despite Takemoto's feelings for her they are not lovers, but it still leads to a [[Tear Jerker|heart-wrenching]] [[Bittersweet Ending]], especially when Takemoto opens Hagumi's farewell gift later on.
* ''[[Hyakujitsu no Bara|Maiden Rose]]'' opens with what should be a by-the-book [[Train Station Goodbye]] scene but then unexpectedly takes out the "goodbye" part which launches off the whole story to follow.
* Meiko and Namura in ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'', complete with ''Saigo no Yakusoku'' -- a massive [[Tear Jerker]] in and of itself -- playing in the background.
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* The anime and manga series ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' uses the 'just too late' variant when Emma leaves London and William chases her to the station.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Ami says goodbye to Ryou this way. Later subverted with Rei and Yuichirou: {{spoiler|the train turns out to be a [[Monster of the Week]]}}. Oddly, the actual example (given that Ryou barely appears again from that point) is very light-hearted in tone, while the subversion is a real [[Tear Jerker]] episode complete with appropriate [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* In [[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation]], happens when Roji leaves on a train for training at the MLS {{spoiler|after being temporarily dismissed by Muhyo, which raises the question of whether they will get back together}}.
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', {{spoiler|following the events at the Nimbasa Ferris Wheel,}} White decides to take on the Battle Subway to learn how to fight. White says her goodbyes to Black from the train window, who muses all that they've done together and how he'll win the League for the sake of both their dreams. Yes, he does end up running after the train while it goes off, but somehow manages to hurl the Pokeball with his Braviary inside to her so that she has three Pokemon to challenge the Subway with.
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** Halfway-subverted: Rick is expecting Ilsa at the station, but in the end all he gets is a note saying she loves him but cannot come with him.
{{quote|"It's got a wow finish. A guy standing on a train platform in the rain with a comical expression because his guts have just been kicked out."}}
* ''[[Far From Heaven]]'': Julianne Moore's character rushes to the train station to say goodbye to Dennis Haysbert. He sees her at the platform, but makes no move to get off the train and go to her. The train pulls away from the station with the two of them looking at each other, then Dennis steps back inside the train as it rolls down the tracks.
* Parodied ruthlessly in ''[[Hot Shots|Hot Shots! Part Deux]]''. After Topper's fiancee leaves him, it starts raining at the train station...[[Personal Raincloud|but only on him.]]
* Occurred in ''Les parapluies de Cherbourg''.
* ''[[Miss Potter]].'' Beatrix Potter is on the train; her beloved is chasing it and catching pneumonia in the process.
* ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'' has the "Saying Good-Bye" scene with Kermit and Piggy.
* In ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'' film based on the book, this is messed with viciously. Gogol(now Nikhil) and Moushumi are about to go on a train to see Gogol's parents. Gogol then finds out about Moushumi's affair with her high school sweetheart. Gogol turns away from her in the train station and Moushumi walks away, embarrassed.
* Inverted in ''[[Safety Last]]''. The movie opens with a scene that appears to show Harold about to be hanged while his family bids goodbye from behind the bars. Then the camera angle shifts and it turns out that it is actually a train station.
* Another parody occurs in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', with Madeline Kahn getting caught in the departing train's steam/smoke and coughing her lungs out.
* ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', when she goes off to Queens College. "She'll be gone so long, she'll get terrible lonesome".
** There's another one in "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story" when Gilbert goes off to war shortly after their wedding. It's the only movie to not follow any canon at all (it's not even in the right ''time period''), but the love scenes are heartwrenching.
* Used in the film [[The Secret in Their Eyes]], which finds the protagonist's lover chasing the train down the platform, even though they've already exchanged "I love you"'s.
* Parodied in [[Airplane!]] in the beginning, with the taxiing plane as the train.
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* In ''[[The Journey of Natty Gann]],'' Natty and Harry have a touching farewell at the bus station, including a kiss, when Harry leaves for California to work while Natty stays in Washington to look for her father. The movie leaves it open-ended as to whether or not they're likely to see each other again, although Natty is shown writing a letter to Harry before the ending.
* In ''[[Carry On Girls]]'', Peter Potter is leaving on a train to Fircombe to help promote a beauty contest. His girl, Paula Perkins, doesn't know about the beauty contest, and is there to see him off. She gets miffed when all the pretty girls are also boarding the train. When the train lurches off, Peter manages to tear the top of one girl down, while Paula is still watching.
* In ''[[A Man And A Woman]]'', Jean-Louis sees his love, Anne, off at the train station. Then he drives like crazy to be in Paris before her train arrives.
* 1925 silent film classic ''[[The Big Parade]]'' features a Troop Transport Goodbye, in which the hero has to leave his pretty French girlfriend when his regiment is called up to the front. It's a different vehicle but otherwise the trope is played perfectly straight.
* In ''[[I Love You Phillip Morris]]'' Phillip runs through the prison and out into the prison "garden" to chase after the prison bus Steven was on and they promise they'll see each other again. Steven drops the title of the film in the process.
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