Tony Crisp Interpretation:
Opportunity or choices in life; your life direction if on train, or the direction the events in life are taking you. Carriages: the compartments of your life. Leaving someone behind or being left behind: feelings about loss of spouse, or breakup of relationship; being left; change of some sort. Lines, tracks: a communal or generally accepted direction; habitual pathways of thought or action; rigidly fixed to certain attitudes or way of life; inflexibility. Missing the train: feeling left out of opportunity; sense of inadequacy; held back by one’s own hesitations; hidden desire to avoid change or to make one’s individual journey. Railway station: moving toward something new; changing scenes—i.e., from family to work environment; leaving something behind—a relationship, one’s youth; one’s ability to change; effort to get somewhere in life or experience something new; parting or meeting, saying farewell or waiting for someone; changes in a relationship or work. The train journey: the aspect of your journey through life that has connections with other people and has a predetermined end, limiting your individual will, and passing through certain stages; journey into self-awareness; can refer to aging and death, especially where there is a feeling of “departing” or “time of departure”; the train of thought or experiences that carry us through life. Train engine: the energy that takes us through life; libido. Idioms: go off the rails; lose track of something; make tracks for; on somebody’s track. See airport; ticket.