The Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop (Danish: Kjöbenhavns Jernbane-Damp-Galop), often just called the Railway Galop (Danish: Jernbanegaloppen), is a musical composition by the Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) which was written to celebrate the opening of the Copenhagen–Roskilde railway line in 1847.
It is one of Hans Christian Lumbye's best known and popular works, and together with Lumbye's Telegraph Galop and Champagne Galop, it was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon as a masterpiece of Danish classical music.
The piece was performed for the first time on 29 June in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.
[2] The piece is a good example of the entertaining music Lumbye liked to compose.
It faithfully recreates the sounds of a steam locomotive chugging out of a station and grinding to a halt at the next stop, traditionally ending with the cry "Next stop Roskilde - the train does not go any further".