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{{quote|''"The day's last one-way ticket train pulls in''

 

See Also [[Airplane of Love]]. In a modern American context, this is an [[Undead Horse Trope|Undead Trope]], as railroads have decayed in favor of short-hop plane flights and the automobile. It's more frequent in Japanese and European media, where trains remain a vital mode of transportation.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* The [[Satoshi Kon]] movie ''[[Millennium Actress]]'' has Chiyoko chasing the mysterious artist to the train station just as the train pulls away.

* Both played straight and subverted in [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] - Touji and Kensuke show up to say their farewells to Shinji, but Misato's arrival at the very last minute causes Shinji to change his mind.

* Parodied in [[Airplane!]] in the beginning, with the taxiing plane as the train.

* In ''[[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.

* 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.

 

== Literature ==

* Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit had this happen with tragic consequences in [[Real Life]]. Her parents objected to her engagement and insisted she leave with them for the country to wait 6 months to "test" if these feelings were strong enough. Her fiance saw her off at the train station while it was raining. He caught pneumonia. Then he died.

* Spoofed in the [[Sven Hassel]] war novel "Comrades of War" when [[Dumb Muscle]] Tiny falls in love with [[Battleaxe Nurse]] Emma. As the train is leaving for the Russian front, he leans out the window shouting that he'll put in for medical leave so he can see her again, only to get hit in the head by a passing pole, whereupon he shouts gleefully, "See, I've got a skull fracture!"

* [[The Monkees (band)|The Monkees]] song "Last Train to Clarksville"

* "Love in Vain" by [[Robert Johnson]] ([[Covered Up]] by [[The Rolling Stones]]).

* The video for Cyndi Lauper's ''Time After Time'' features one at the end.

 

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/16/ Parodied] by [[Penny Arcade]].

* ''Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal'' [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1278#comic did it too.]

 

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