Fear of trains

Therefore, in the event of repression of sexuality the person will experience anxiety when confronted with railway travel.

[4] Regardless of sexuality, since early days various authors associated the uncontrollable movement of the train with the fear of derailment, or a catastrophe.

[5] This kind of fear, as well as actual crimes committed in trains, were often a matter of newspaper publications of the times.

The German term "Eisenbahnangst" used, e.g., by Sigmund Freud[1] was literally converted into Greek as "siderodromophobia" (Eisen = sideron = iron, Bahn = dromos = way, Angst = phobos = fear).

[11] A 1913 short story Terror by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is a first-person narrative of a young man suffering of the morbid fear of travel in trains and streetcars.