Train A train was a grouping of vehicles that moved , particularly over metal rails , transporting passengers or freight . On Earth . The Fifth Doctor , after landing his TARDIS at a train station in Oxfordshire on 11 June 1925 , mentioned to his companions that he had always wanted to drive a train as a boy . ( TV : " Black Orchid " ) The same was true of Henry Gordon Jago . ( AUDIO : " Higson & Quick " ) In 1863 , the Third Doctor and Charlie Fisher used a train engine to escape from the Confederate lines after their hot air balloon was shot down . ( COMIC : " Backtime " ) In 1868 , Ian Chesterton used a train to kill the Animus , which was hiding in the London Underground . ( COMIC : " Unnatural Selection " ) In 1879 , Queen Victoria had planned to take the train to Aberdeen , but was forced to go by coach when a fallen tree blocked the line , as arranged by the Brethren . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) In 1885 , a Shift Agent took over a steam train in order to get to Euston and recover a case of dark matter . ( COMIC : " Track Attack " ) In 1898 , Ian Stratford took the train from Paddington station to the town of Three Sisters . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) In 1909 , Jack Harkness and a group of soldiers under his command were travelling through Lahore by train when the soldiers were killed by Fairies . ( TV : " Small Worlds " ) The Eighth Doctor claimed he took a train with Lenin from Switzerland to Petrograd . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) In 1917 , the Doctor ' s TARDIS materialised on a train en route to Darjeeling , India . ( AUDIO : " The Roof of the World " ) On 1 September 1939 , Cecelia Pollard was convinced to board the Vienna to Calais Transcontinental Express by Celestial Intervention Agency agent Torvald instead of committing suicide . President Romana II , Leela , Narvin , Mephistopheles Arkadian and Torvald all boarded the train because of Cecelia ' s presence . ( AUDIO : " A Blind Eye " ) On 7 September 1952 , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe visited the train " Ivy Lee " . ( AUDIO : " The Nowhere Place " ) In 1967 , Madeline Burton , while using Om - Tsor , accidentally caused a train in northwestern India to derail , killing the hundreds of people on board . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) In 1979 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana II took a train while in Paris . ( TV : " City of Death " ) Circa 1990 , the Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith took a train to Royal Albert Hall , which was abducted by the Kalik . ( COMIC : " Train - Flight " ) In 1993 , a Fortean Flicker transported a group of train passengers to Hogsumm . ( PROSE : " The Highest Science " ) They were later returned to their own time by Romana II . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) Circa December 2009 , Mike Yates took a train to Nest Cottage to answer a strange advertisement . ( AUDIO : " The Stuff of Nightmares " ) In Bristol in the 2010s , a train almost ran over a defenceless and externally shrunken TARDIS , which had the Twelfth Doctor inside . Later , Clara Oswald and Rigsy used another train in an attempt to trample a group of the Boneless . However , the plan failed as the Boneless turned the train two - dimensional . ( TV : " Flatline " ) Miss Quill wondered if Dorothea Ames ' metaphysical engine " buzzed [ her ] atomically " to the Peak District . She pointed out the area ' s relative proximity to Coal Hill Academy by saying , " There are trains for that . " ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) In 2050 , due to the Oroborus consuming time , all the trains in London ran on time , even if they were several hours late , and some trains even arrived before they had left . ( TV : " Oroborus " ) In 2080 , Ileana de Santos and her associates took a private monorail train from Rio de Janeiro to a ranch house in the Amazon desert . The Fifth Doctor , with some difficulty , materialised the TARDIS in the train ' s baggage car . ( AUDIO : " Loups - Garoux " ) Alternate timelines . In an alternate timeline , Amy Pond took the Eleventh Doctor aboard a train headed for Area 52 in Egypt . A train also ran through the Gherkin . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) On other planets . On an Earth - like planet , the Dalek s used a train for transport . The Second Doctor crashed the train by removing a section of the track , causing it to derail . ( COMIC : " The Exterminator " ) One human colony world which was mostly ice used skitrains , which had runners instead of wheel s . ( PROSE : " Cold Fusion " ) On the stormy planet Tempest , the only way to safely traverse the wastelands was by monorail trains . ( PROSE : " Tempest " ) On Florana , trains were used to transport prisoners to factories . ( AUDIO : " The Elite " ) In a heavily polluted city on an Earth - like world , the Fourth Doctor assisted the Guardian Angel s in finding the correct train track which would lead them out of the city and to the countryside . However , when he arrived there in the TARDIS and waited for them , they never arrived , and he concluded that they didn ' t make it , which was perhaps just as well since the countryside was just as polluted as the city itself . ( COMIC : " End of the Line " ) In the Matrix on Gallifrey , the Fourth Doctor found himself trapped on a recreation of a train line , his foot caught in the tracks after the points changed , while Goth drove a train toward him . The Doctor freed himself and jumped clear at the last second , and the train vanished . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) On the Dalek Foundation world of Sunlight 349 , journalist Lillian Belle was gathering information at the site of a head - on collision between two trains . When a Dalek arrived on the scene , it murder ed one of the drivers ( Mr Sezman ) and the medics who rescued him from the wreckage and left . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) Through space . A space - faring version of the Orient Express ferried passengers between planets , travelling along hyperspace ribbons . ( TV : " Mummy on the Orient Express " ) The Eighth Doctor kept a in his TARDIS , which he constructed over a period of several years until it eventually became a microcosm of its own . ( PROSE : " Model Train Set " , " Vampire Science " , " Genocide " )