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* ''[[Allison and Lillia]]'' plays this trope ''almost'' entirely straight (with it being a literal [[Tear Jerker]]), though it's subverted a scene (and 15-year [[Time Skip]]) later.
* ''[[Blue Drop]]'' has an interesting variety, in which Mari run's after Hagino's ''space ship'', right before {{spoiler|it rams a ship of the invading Arume fleet}}.
* At the end of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Sakura runs by the train to give Syaoran her second teddy bear to signify that they are a couple and that she will wait for him to return.
* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' ended in a tramway goodbye. ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' had an odd variant.
* ''[[Five5 Centimeters Per Second]]'' has this as one of its many pivotal moments, because it's {{spoiler|one of the last times Tohno sees Akari before they permanently part ways.}} It's made even stronger since {{spoiler|it was after the first time they shared a kiss, and spent the whole night catching up and reminiscing, snowed in in an old shack.}}
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' plays with and subverts this several times between Edward and Winry, {{spoiler|finally playing it straight in the finale.}}
* 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.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''Amazing [[Spider Man|Spider-Man]]'' #143 (1974), Mary Jane Watson accompanies Peter Parker to JFK airport from where he and Robbie Robertson are going to fly to Paris for a story. The two had been dating for a while, but it is only now, before they are saying farewell that she asks him to kiss her. It is a good kiss, and a major turning point in their relationship, and set up that their love had now grown so strong that not even the introduction of Gwen Stacy's clone (that very issue) could derail it.
 
== Film ==
* The ''[[Since You Went Away (Film)|Since You Went Away]]'' version was parodied in ''[[Airplane!]]'' with the soldier on the plane, leaning out the hatch as it taxis down the runway, and his lover running alongside yelling her goodbyes whilst colliding with various stuff.
** Accompanied by the plane making [[Stock Sound Effects|steam engine noises]].
* ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. Starts and ends at train station. No one does any running though.
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* ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Film)|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 (Literature)|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.
* In ''[[Closely Watched Trains (Film)|Closely Watched Trains]]'', the main character is about to kiss his love interest who's on the last car of a train. The train starts moving before their lips can touch.
* [[Pee WeesWee's Big Adventure]] features a bus depot goodbye as Simone (the waitress he befriended earlier) waves good by to Pee-Wee as she goes on her way to Paris, complete with hankerchief.
* 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.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Early Edition (TV)|Early Edition]]'' setup for one of these, but when Gary reached the train station, the girl wasn't there: she'd decided to take an earlier train because she knew if he tried to talk her out of going, she'd probably stay.
* An episode of ''[[Goodnight Sweetheart]]'' had Gary running after the Eurostar to say goodbye to Yvonne, only to trip over a luggage trolley.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' spoofed this trope, in which a woman continuously chases her lover.
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== Music ==
* "Penélope", a song by the Spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat, is about a Train Station Goodbye. The man, however, returns several years later.
* [[The Monkees (Musicband)|The Monkees]] song "Last Train to Clarksville"
* "Love in Vain" by [[Robert Johnson (Music)|Robert Johnson]] ([[Covered Up]] by [[The Rolling Stones (Music)|The Rolling Stones]]).
* The song "Summer Rain" by Belinda Carlisle contains this in the chorus, as she is "whispering our goodbyes/waiting for a train/I was dancing with my baby/in the summer rain." The music video depicts a [[Train Station Goodbye]] as well.
* The video for Cyndi Lauper's ''Time After Time'' features one at the end.
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* One occurs in the second bonus level of [[Ouendan]] 2.
* The end of ''[[Persona 4]]'' has your whole group of friends doing this to you.
* A non-romantic example is the ending of the fourth case of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', in which Phoenix's sidekick Maya goes to train in the Kurain Channeling technique in her hometown, and Phoenix says his goodbyes to her in the station.
** '''HOLD IT!'''
* [[Grim Fandango]] does an alternative take on this with {{spoiler|Glottis being unable to go beyond the Land of the Dead with Manny and Meché; whilst it obviously isn't romantic in any way, it's still a potential tear jerker through Glottis embracing Manny and crying about how he's the best boss he's ever had.}}
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