siderodromophobia

English

Etymology

sidero- +‎ dromo- +‎ -phobia

Noun

siderodromophobia (uncountable)

1. A morbid fear of railways.
   • 1894, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volumes 130-131, page 71:

     […] or fear of microbes; siderodromophobia, or dread of railways; pathophobia, or fear of disease — with many subdivisions, of which the most important and most frequent are […]

   • 1996, Sylvia Funston, Scary Science, page 8:

     But because your interpreter has the job of making sense of your scared feelings, it connects your sensation of panic to the train. Welcome to siderodromophobia, the fear of trains!

   • 2015, Charles Stross, The Annihilation Score, page 335:

     Anxiety dream redux; my subconscious couldn't frighten me with naked-on-the-streets-of-London, so it's iterated through loss-anxiety to a healthy dose of siderodromophobia.