[9] The EP's title and material was born out of the group's Perfect Symmetry World Tour of 2008–2009.

[13] On 11 March 2010 the first single from the EP, "Stop for a Minute", made its debut on Fearne Cotton's BBC Radio 1 show.

Ryan Brockington of the New York Post's PopWrap called the work, "game changing" while writing that the first single, "Stop for a Minute", is "just as brilliant" as the album.

[26] John Aizlewood of Q magazine called Night Train's "8 tracks and 31 minutes... surprisingly effective between-albums stop-gap".

[22] Keane Additional Musicians The Night Train EP debuted on the UK Albums Chart on 16 May 2010 at number one with sales of 28,000 copies.