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[[File:TrainStation Goodbye.jpg|frame|[[Rule of Romantic|Goodbyes should be romantic.]]]]
{{quote|''"The day's last one-way ticket train pulls in''
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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.
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== 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.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' presents us with a nice little variant. In ''[[Harry Potter and
* 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!"
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