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L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was first screened on December 28 1895 in Paris, France, and was shown to a paying audience January 6 1896.

“We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the Orient Express. "--Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

Train, train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend
Train, train, comin' 'round the bend

--"Mystery Train" (1953) by Junior Parker

"By the railway space is annihilated, and only time remains. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to Orleans, in the same time to Rouen. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German lime-trees; the billows of the North Sea are bounding and roaring before my door."--Heinrich Heine commenting upon the opening of the chemin de fer de Paris à la mer in 1843

"The terms ‘railway-spine’ and ‘railway-brain,’ which the English and American pathologists have given to certain states of these organs, show that they recognise them as due partly to the effects of railway accidents, partly to the constant vibrations undergone in railway travelling."--Degeneration (1892) by Max Nordau

Train wreck at Montparnasse (October 22, 1895) by Studio Lévy and Sons.

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) by William Turner

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Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are located on tracks.

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History

The oldest known, man/animal-hauled railways date back to the 6th century BC in Corinth, Greece. Rail transport then commenced in mid 16th century in Germany in the form of horse-powered funiculars and wagonways. Modern rail transport commenced with the British development of the steam locomotive in Merthyr Tydfil when Richard Trevithick ran a steam locomotive and loaded wagons between Penydarren Ironworks and Abercynon in 1802. Thus the railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world. Built by George Stephenson and his son Robert's company Robert Stephenson and Company, the Locomotion No. 1 is the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. George Stephenson also built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use only the steam locomotives, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. With steam engines, one could construct mainline railways, which were a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Also, railways reduced the costs of shipping, and allowed for fewer lost goods, compared with water transport, which faced occasional sinking of ships. The change from canals to railways allowed for "national markets" in which prices varied very little from city to city. The spread of the railway network and the use of railway timetables, led to the standardisation of time (railway time) in Britain based on Greenwich Mean Time. Prior to this, major towns and cities varied their local time relative to GMT. The invention and development of the railway in the United Kingdom was one of the most important technological inventions of the 19th century. The world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway (part of the London Underground), opened in 1863.

In the 1880s, electrified trains were introduced, leading to electrification of tramways and rapid transit systems. Starting during the 1940s, the non-electrified railways in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives, with the process being almost complete by the 2000s. During the 1960s, electrified high-speed railway systems were introduced in Japan and later in some other countries. Many countries are in the process of replacing diesel locomotives with electric locomotives, mainly due to environmental concerns, a notable example being Switzerland, which has completely electrified its network. Other forms of guided ground transport outside the traditional railway definitions, such as monorail or maglev, have been tried but have seen limited use.

Following a decline after World War II due to competition from cars and aeroplanes, rail transport has had a revival in recent decades due to road congestion and rising fuel prices, as well as governments investing in rail as a means of reducing CO₂ emissions in the context of concerns about global warming.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station

Train wreck at Montparnasse

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by William Turner

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+“We left [[Charing Cross]] on the morning of the 12th, got to [[Paris]] the same night, and took the places secured for us in the [[Orient Express]]. "--''[[Dracula]]'' (1897) by  Bram Stoker
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 [[Rail transport|Train]], train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend<br>
 Train, train, comin' 'round the bend
 --"[[Mystery Train]]" (1953) by Junior Parker
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-"''[[The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan|The Europeans]]'' (2019) interweaves [[rail transport]], the [[diffusion]] of [[cultural products]], the histories of [[history of copyright|copyright]], [[mechanical reproduction]], [[tourism]], [[19th century literature]], [[19th century art|art]] and [[19th century music|music]] with the personal lives of operatic star [[Pauline Viardot]], her husband [[Louis Viardot]] and her lover [[Ivan Turgenev]] to sketch a remarkably lively portrait of [[19th century Europe]]."--Sholem Stein
+"By the [[rail transport|railway]] [[Spacetime  |space is annihilated, and only time remains]]. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to [[Orleans]], in the same time to [[Rouen]]. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German [[lime-trees]]; the [[billows]] of the [[North Sea]] are bounding and roaring before my door."--Heinrich Heine commenting upon the opening of the [[chemin de fer de Paris à la mer]] in 1843
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-"By the [[rail transport|railway]] [[Spacetime  |space is annihilated, and only time remains]]. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to [[Orleans]], in the same time to [[Rouen]]. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German [[lime-trees]]; the [[billows]] of the [[North Sea]] are bounding and roaring before my door."--''[[French affairs – Letters from Paris. In: Two Volumes. Vol. II. Lutetia]]'' () by Heinrich Heine
+"The terms ‘[[Rail transport|railway]]-spine’ and ‘railway-brain,’ which the English and American [[pathologists]] have given to certain states of these organs, show that they recognise them as due partly to the effects of railway accidents, partly to the constant vibrations undergone in railway travelling."--''[[Degeneration (Nordau)|Degeneration]]'' (1892) by Max Nordau
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-"The terms ‘[[Rail transport|railway]]-spine’ and ‘railway-brain,’ which the English and American pathologists have given to certain states of these organs, show that they recognise them as due partly to the effects of railway accidents, partly to the constant vibrations undergone in railway travelling."--''[[Degeneration (Nordau)|Degeneration]]'' (1892) by Max Nordau
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 [[Image:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Montparnasse derailment|Train wreck at Montparnasse]]'' ([[October 22]], [[1895]]) by Studio Lévy and Sons.]]
 Image:Rain Steam and Speed the Great Western Railway.jpg|''[[Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway]]'' by William Turner
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-==In fiction==
-Examples of '''railways in fiction''' include:
-==Films==
-* ''[[3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]'' (2007), the second adaptation of [[Elmore Leonard]]'s short story, starred [[Russell Crowe]] and [[Christian Bale]].
-* ''[[The 39 Steps (1935 film)|The 39 Steps]]'' (1935) - Richard Hannay travels on the [[Flying Scotsman (train)|Flying Scotsman]].
-* ''[[The American Friend]]'' ({{lang-de|Der amerikanische Freund}}) (1977), adapted from [[Patricia Highsmith]]'s novel [[Ripley's Game]], features action sequences in the [[Paris Métro]] and on a German train.
-* ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]'' – the improvised method of propelling the time machine to 88&nbsp;mph in 1885 was by using a steam locomotive, also [[Emmett Brown]] refitted a steam locomotive into a [[hovertrain]] as the basis of his new time machine.
-* ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (1945) – romantic meetings in a train station
-* ''[[Boxcar Bertha]]'' (1972) - starring [[Barbara Hershey]] as an orphan who turns to robbing trains for survival. [[Martin Scorsese]]'s first feature film.
-* ''[[The Cassandra Crossing]]'' (1976) – passengers aboard a transcontinental train face a threat from carrier of plague virus.
-* ''[[Cairo Station]]'' (1958) – takes place in a train station.
-* ''[[Closely Watched Trains]]'' – The story takes places at a railway station in World War II in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi occupation. The film is based on [[Bohumil Hrabal]]'s novel, directed by [[Jiří Menzel]].
-* ''[[Creep (2004 film)|Creep]]'' (2004) - A killer stalks the [[London Underground]].
-* ''[[Dancer in the Dark]]'' (2000) - A hypnotic musical number is staged on a slow-moving freight train.
-* ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]'' (2007) - a comedy-drama by Wes Anderson that is primarily set aboard a luxury train "The Darjeeling Limited".
-* ''[[Death Line]]'' (1972) – features a killer on the London Underground.
-* ''[[Dil Se..]]'' (1998) - features a fantasy musical number, [[Chaiyya Chaiyya]], staged on a moving [[Nilgiri Mountain Railway]] train.
-* ''[[Double Indemnity (film)|Double Indemnity]]'' (1944) - A murderer stages a fake accident on a train.
-* ''[[Emperor of the North Pole]]'' (1973) - A [[Great Depression]]-era film about hobos starring [[Lee Marvin]] and [[Ernest Borgnine]].
-* ''[[The First Great Train Robbery]]'' - based on the [[Great Gold Robbery of 1855]].
-* ''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]'' – [[James Bond]] novel and film, confrontation on board of the [[Orient Express]].
-* ''[[The Burning Train]]'' (1980) - The plot revolves around a train named Super Express that catches fire on its inaugural run from New Delhi to Mumbai.
-* ''[[Give My Regards to Broad Street (film)|Give My Regards to Broad Street]]'' – A day in the life of [[Paul McCartney]]. Master tapes to McCartney's new album are stolen. Featuring London Broad Street station.
-* ''[[The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery]]'' (1969) - a group of train robbers are chased up and down a local railway line by a group of unruly students from a local school.
-* ''[[The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)|The Great Train Robbery]]'' – an influential 1903 silent film based on a true story, also title of a modern film.
-* ''[[Horror Express]]'' – Anglo-Spanish horror film set aboard the [[Trans-Siberian Express]], on which passengers are killed off one by one.
-* ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] – the majority of the plot takes place on a train heading for England.
-* ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]'' and ''[[Men in Black II]]'' – starring [[Will Smith]] and [[Tommy Lee Jones]], has aliens living in the subway.
-* ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' – sees a [[helicopter]] pursuing a [[TGV]] train into the [[Channel Tunnel]] which runs between [[Great Britain]] and [[France]]. In reality this type of train does not travel through the Channel Tunnel, and the tunnel shown in the film has double [[rail track|track]] whereas the real tunnel has two single bores.
-* ''[[Miss Potter]]'' – Sequences for the film Miss Potter starring [[Ewan McGregor]] and [[Renée Zellweger]] were filmed at Horsted Keynes station on the [[Bluebell Railway]].
-* ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974) Based on novel by [[Agatha Christie]], starring [[Albert Finney]], [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Ingrid Bergman]].
-* ''[[Murder, She Said]]'' – features extensive railway scenes. Based on the novel ''[[4.50 from Paddington]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]].
-* ''[[The Narrow Margin]]'' (1952) - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse aboard a train. Remade under the [[Narrow Margin|same title]] in 1990.
-* ''[[Night Mail]]'' (1936) - a documentary film about a mail train's trip from London to Scotland.
-* ''[[Night Train (1959 film)|Night Train]]'' (1959) - Polish film by [[Jerzy Kawalerowicz]].
-* ''[[North by Northwest]]'' (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring [[Cary Grant]], [[Eva Marie Saint]] and [[James Mason]].
-* ''[[North West Frontier (film)|North West Frontier]]'' (1959) – A British army officer transports a young prince to safety aboard an antiquated locomotive.
-* ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937) - [[Will Hay]] film about an incompetent station master in charge of a near-derelict railway station in [[Northern Ireland]].
-* ''[[The Olsen Gang on the Track]]'' (1975) - A Danish comedy film directed by [[Erik Balling]] and starring [[Ove Sprogøe]].
-* ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' (1968) - A [[Spaghetti Western]] directed by [[Sergio Leone]] that deals with a [[Business magnate|railroad tycoon]] trying force a widow off her land to make way for his railroad.
-* ''[[The Polar Express (film)|The Polar Express]]'' - a Christmas story about a non-believing young boy and his adventures with Santa Claus
-* ''[[Robbery (1967 film)|Robbery]]'' (1967) - based loosely on the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]].
-* ''[[Runaway (2009 film)|Runaway]]'' (2009) – [[National Film Board of Canada]] animated comedy short about a runaway train.
-* ''[[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]]'' – escaped convicts on a runaway train.
-* ''[[Silver Streak (film)|Silver Streak]]'' - a passenger train is both the primary set and plays a pivotal part in bringing murderers to justice.
-* ''[[Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]'' (1994) - Known mostly for its sequences on a city bus, this film's climax is set on the [[Metro Rail (Los Angeles County)|Los Angeles subway]].
-* ''[[The Station Agent]]'' (2003) - a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in [[Newfoundland, New Jersey]].
-* ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]'' (1951) - Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller.
-* ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' (2013) - a science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by [[Bong Joon Ho]] about a luxury train that circles around the Earth.
-* ''[[Steamboy]]'' (2004) - featured extensive railway scenes (including a chase scene between a train, a "[[Traction engine|steam automotive]]" and a steam-powered [[monowheel]]) around [[London]] and [[Manchester]].
-* ''[[Terror by Night]]'' (1946) - a [[Sherlock Holmes]] film, with the story revolving around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train.
-* ''[[Terror Train]]'' (1980) - Canadian horror film starring [[Jamie Lee Curtis]].
-* ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]'' – 1974 film adapted from the John Godey novel of the same name about the hijacking of a New York Subway train.
-* ''[[The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film)|The Taking of Pelham 123]]'' - 2009 remake of the 1974 version of the hijacking of the New York Subway train
-* ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]'' (1953) - set on a country railway threatened with closure and sabotage by a local bus service.
-* ''[[Tourist Train]]'' (1933) - comic adventures of travellers on Italian railways.
-* ''[[The Train (1964 film)|The Train]]'' (1964) - [[French Resistance]] members try to stop a Nazi colonel from transporting priceless works of art aboard a train to Germany.
-* ''[[Train of Events]]'' (1949) - revolves around the lives of several people involved in a train crash.
-* ''[[Under Siege 2: Dark Territory]]'' (1995) - sequel of the 1992 film [[Under Siege]] about mercenaries who hijacked a passenger train in the [[Rocky Mountains]] and ex-Navy SEAL [[Casey Ryback]] who tries to stop them.
-* ''[[Unstoppable (2010 film)|Unstoppable]]'' (2010) - tells the story of a runaway freight train and two men who try to stop it. Inspired by the [[CSX 8888 incident]].
-* ''[[Volcano (1997 film)|Volcano]]'' – An extension to the subway meets a lava flow.
-* ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' is about World War II POW's escaping by hijacking their train.
-* ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]'' (1979) - many scenes set in and around the [[New York City Subway]].
-* ''[[While You Were Sleeping (film)|While You Were Sleeping]]'' – stars [[Sandra Bullock]] as a subway worker who is mistaken for the fiancee of an injured passenger.
-* ''[[Zootopia]]'' - An express train and freight train are used by the protagonist, and an abandoned subway car is one of the sites of the climax.
-==Literature==
-*''[[4.50 from Paddington]]'' (book; film and TV adaptations) – a [[Miss Marple]] story.  A passenger on one train is witness to a murder being committed on another train.
-* ''[[The Memoirs of Solar Pons|The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive]]'' - a [[Solar Pons]] story about a disappearing train on the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]].
-* ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' (book) – by Leo Tolstoy. Train travel is arguably the most prominent motif of the story.
-* "The Celestial Railroad" – Short story by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
-* ''Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away'' (book, episode adaptation in ''Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories'') - A [[Children's literature|children's book]] by [[Virginia Lee Burton]] The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties.
-* [[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]] (book series) by [[Stephen King]] – The main character [[Roland of Gilead]] travels through a series of caves which were once part of an [[Rapid transit|underground railroad]] system. The characters also ride on a [[monorail]] with [[artificial intelligence]].
-* ''The Devil's Horse'', ''The Poison Tree'' and ''The Abyss'' in [[Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]]' [[The Morland Dynasty]] series feature the development of steam power and the first railways in Britain.
-* ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' – From the [[manga]] and [[anime]] of the same name by [[Leiji Matsumoto]], this train travels the galaxy from planet to planet.
-* ''[[Iron Council]]'' (book) by [[China Mieville]]) – a fantasy novel about the building of a cross-continental railway line.
-* ''[[Railsea]]'' (book) by [[China Mieville]] - a fantasy novel that features railway tracks that represent oceans and sea called "Railsea" and features giant moles ("moldywarpes") that represent whales and boat-like trains. It parodies [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]''.
-* ''Jim Stringer: Steam Detective'' - series of mystery novels by [[Andrew Martin (novelist)|Andrew Martin]] set on various British railway lines.
-* ''[[La Bête humaine]]'' – (novel) by [[Émile Zola]], filmed 5 times, e.g. as ''Cruel Train''
-* ''[[The Engine Woman’s Light]]'' ([[Laurel Anne Hill]]) – a spirits-meet-steampunk novel about the heroic journey of a young Latina in an alternate 19th Century California, where trains are used to transport undesirables to a dreaded asylum.
-* ''[[The Little Engine That Could]]'' – children's book. Also adapted as an animated film in 1991 (see [[The Little Engine That Could (1991 film)|The Little Engine That Could (film)]]).
-* ''The Locomotive'' – dynamic poem for children by [[Julian Tuwim]], filmed by [[Zbigniew Rybczyński]]
-* ''[[The Lost Special]]'' - short story by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], about the investigation of a special train mysteriously disappearing.
-* ''Making Tracks (23 Classic Railroad Stories)'' (2013), ed. by Jon Schlenker and Charles G. Waugh.
-* ''[[The Moosepath League|The Moosepath Saga]]'' by [[Van Reid]]  – All six books in this series feature travel by rail, entailing adventure, comedy, mystery, and romance in late 19th century Maine.
-* ''The Motion Demon'' – 1919 (book) horror stories by [[Stefan Grabiński]]- Engine Driver Grot; The Wandering Train; The Motion Demon; The Sloven; The Perpetual Passenger; In the Compartment; Signals; The Siding; Ultima Thule.
-* ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (book by [[Agatha Christie]], 1934; film) – describes a train journey from Istanbul to Paris aboard the [[Orient Express]] during which a murder takes place. [[Hercule Poirot]], riding on the train solves the mystery and justice is served.
-* ''[[The Mystery of the Blue Train]]'' (book, TV adaptation) – earlier Poirot story in which a murder takes place on a train.
-* ''The Network'' (book) – by Laurence Staig. An ancient prophecy is realised one Christmas Eve in the [[London Underground]], a dramatic race against time as 3 people are thrown together to prevent a terrifying catastrophe.
-* ''[[Night on the Galactic Railroad]]'' (novel, film) - two boys travel on a magical train across the night sky - but there is a deeper meaning to the journey.
-* ''[[The Railway Series]]'', British stories about a fictional railway by Rev. W. Awdry, which would later be adapted into the children's show [[Thomas and Friends]].
-* ''[[Silver on the Tree]]'', the last book in Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising]] cycle - approaching the climax of the story, the main characters travel on a mystical train to the final battle between the Light and the Dark
-* ''[[Strangers on a Train (novel)|Strangers on a Train]]'' (novel, film) – tells the story of how two strangers meet on a train and decide to exchange murders so they can't be tied to each other.
-* [[Things in Atlas Shrugged|Taggart Comet]] (''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'')
-* ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' – (book by [[John Buchan]], films, one by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]) features a sequence where the character Richard Hannay escapes from the [[Police]] by jumping from a train on the [[Forth Bridge]] in [[Scotland]].
-* [[Ferenc Körmendi#Novels|Via Bodenbach]], an experimental novel about a train journey to Berlin by Hungarian novelist Ferenc Körmendi, published in 1932 and widely translated.
-* ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' - an episode in the novel involves the flight of [[Mr. Toad]] by rail and a chase-scene with another train full of policemen.
-*''[[Grim Tuesday]]'' - The second book in [[The Keys to the Kingdom]] series feature a train with SPIKES all over it.
-*''[[Greatwinter Trilogy]]'' - A book series featuring trains powered by wind turbines and trains powered by pedaling done by it passengers. Passengers are ranked according to how much they pedal, and those who pedal most get credits towards their fare and priority use of the railside facilities.
-*''Red Mars'' - The first book in the [[Mars Trilogy]] feature a train that went around the circumference of the moon and travel fast enough to generate rotatinal gravity, relieving the difficulties of living in microgravity and allowing colonists to acclimate before moving down to the Martian surface colonies.
-*''[[Inverted World]]'' - A novel about a large city run on rails.
-*''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'' - A novel series feature huge, nuclear-powered trains for interstellar travel (through artificial wormholes).
-*''Wheelworld'' - The second novel in the [[To the Stars (trilogy)]] set in an agricultural colony on a planet with very extreme seasons causing the entire colony to escape the brutal summers twice per year by turning into a mobile colony. They did this by jacking up the colony's main buildings on wheels, forming them up behind the colony's nuclear power plants (which now transformed into an enormous locomotive) into a train-like vehicle that run on roads rather than tracks. This make the 12,000 mile trek to the other side of the planet.
-*''Dreadnought'' - The third novel in [[Cherie Priest]] Clockwork Century novel, where the main character ride on a Union war locomotive called the ''Dreadnought''. It is used by the Union to terrorize Confederate rail traffic. It's a warship on rails, with a heavily armored engine, plenty of automated guns, and a complement of troops on board.
-*''[[Nightside (book series)]]'' - A book series feature subway trains that don't require drivers, it travel through various other dimensions as shortcuts, and heal themselves when damaged.
-*''[[Raising Steam]]'' - The 40th Discworld novel feature the first steam locomotive on Discworld called Iron Girder.
-*''The Boundless'' - A novel by [[Kenneth Oppel]] set in a train called The Boundless.
-*''[[The Half-Made World]]'' - A novel featuring The 38 Engines of the Line which are sentient trains. Nobody knows their exact origin.
-*''Freedom Express'' - The seventh novel in the Wingman series by Mack Maloney feature a ten-mile-long super-train that is heavily armored, heavily armed and is manned by members of the heroic Post-Apocalyptic Badass Army that protects what remains of America.
-*''[[Starcross (novel)]]'' - The second novel in the Larklight series feature a space railway in the Asteroid Belt made by the same company that built the Crystal Palace.
-*''[[Quadrail series]]'' - A novel series feature an interplanetary metro system, with light-years-long tunnels that snake around the galaxy and connect many interplanetary systems together.
-*''[[The Yellow Arrow]]'' - the allegorical story by [[Victor Pelevin]] written in 1993.
-==Television==
-* ''[[Atomic Train]]'' – television film (1999) A runaway train carrying an atomic bomb into a town.
-* ''[[Chuggington]]'' is a British children's [[Computer animation|computer-animated]] television series produced by Ludorum plc.
-* ''[[Dad's Army]]'' - several episodes were set at Walmington-on-Sea railway station or on the local railway line.
-* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' – features several train like Digimon called Trailmon that run on monorails.
-* ''[[Digimon Tamers#Runaway Locomon|Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express]]'' – features a train like Digimon called Locomon that is controlled by another Digimon causing it to run wild on the railways.  It later evolves into a meaner looking Digimon called Grandlocomon.
-* ''[[The Flockton Flyer]]'' - about a family who work on a [[heritage railway]].
-* ''[[Oh, Doctor Beeching!]]'' - set on a railway station threatened with closure.
-* ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'' - set on a rural railway line permanently threatened with closure.
-* Two seasons of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Lightspeed Rescue]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force|Mystic Force]]'', feature train based Megazords; the Supertrain Megazord and Solar Streak Megazord respectively. They are based on Grand Liner of ''[[Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive]]'' and Travelion of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' respectively.
-* ''[[Quatermass and the Pit]]'' - building work on the [[London Underground]] unearths artefacts from a race of extraterrestrials.
-* ''[[Supertrain]]'' – A television series on a huge luxury double deckered high speed train.
-* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends]]'' – TV series originated from [[The Railway Series]] by the Rev.W.Awdry
-* ''[[Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress]]'' – Anime series featuring a locomotive that runs on steam transporting villagers escaping from Kabane.
-* ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' – features the DenLiner, the train that ables to travel time.
-* ''[[Ressha Sentai ToQger]]'' - Super Sentai series featuring trains
-==Other==
-{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}
-* [[Astrotrain]] – A Decepticon triple-changer from the [[Transformers]] toy line, who transforms into a steam locomotive and a shuttle.
-* ''The Crazy Locomotive'' – by [[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], 1923 expressionistic 45-minutes play ( [[Obie Award]]-winning production at the Chelsea Theatre Center in 1977, [[Classical Theatre of Harlem]]). Two engineers push the locomotive to ever-greater speeds causing a head-on collision.
-* ''[[Dutchman (play)]]'' by LeRoi Jones ([[Amiri Baraka]]) is set in the [[New York City Subway]].
-* ''[[The Ghost Train (play)|The Ghost Train]]'' - stageplay by [[Arnold Ridley]] about a group of passengers stranded in a haunted railway station. Adapted to film numerous times.
-* ''[[Starlight Express]]'' ([[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]) – Musical about trains competing in a World Championship railway race.
-* "Tons of Steel" – A Grateful Dead song about a man and the train he operates.
-* ''[[The Wrecker (play)|The Wrecker]]'' - stageplay by [[Arnold Ridley]] about a steam engine that is allegedly possessed.This later made into the 1929 film ''[[The Wrecker (1929 film)|The Wrecker]]'' however it did not feature the possessed train.
-* ''[[Le Transperceneige]]'' - A French Graphic novel about a luxury train that went around a post-apocalyptic ice age later inspired the 2013 film [[Snowpiercer]].
-*''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'' - Features the controllable Spirit Train and the Demon Train as an antagonist.
-*''[[Half-Life (series)]]'' - Several of the games start or end on trams and trains, and feature themes of rail transportation in-game as usable trams or as obstacles and scenery.
-*''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' - Most of this series of games contains a form of railroading (train, tram etc.).
-*''[[Alice Madness Returns]]'' - In game appears the Infernal Train as the main source of destruction in Wonderland, controlled by the Dollmaker. It can be seen throughout numerous parts in the game, and it is used as a final chapter.
-*''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' - One race takes place in a subway station called Golden Bell.
-*''[[Coors Light]]'' - One of its ads feature a refrigerated train filled with chilled Coors Light beer. Everytime its passes, its surrounding gets covered in frost.
-*''[[Stand Still, Stay Silent]]'' - A Finnish-Swedish webcomic feature an armored railcar called Dalahästen that destroys anything that gets on the tracks. It also has a giant buzzsaws mounted on the top.
-*''[[Paranatural]]'' - A webcomic feature a living spirit that represents a flying ghost train called Ghost Train.
-*''[[Batman]]'' - The character had a subterranean jet-propelled train car called the Batsubway Rocket.
-*''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Vol II]]'' - A comic book feature a Secret Black Government Train. Its engine number is .007.
-*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - A comic book mini-series feature Alexander III's Imperial Train.
 == See also ==
 *[[Railway music]]
 *[[L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat]]
-* [[Trans Europ Express  ]]
+* [[Trans Europ Express]]
+* [[Trans-Siberian Railway]]
 *[[Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare]]
 *[[Fear of trains]]

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