Last Train Last Train In contract bridge, Last Train refers to a bid just below game level in the agreed suit. A Last Train bid is typically made in a bidding sequence in which one of the partners has already indicated slam interest. A survey in the magazine "The Bridge World" showed a strong consensus approving the Last Train convention, with the following definition: The convention was both devised by Jeff Meckstroth and named by him after the Monkees song "Last Train to Clarksville". Because Last Train is a bidding convention with a special meaning under a partnership agreement, subject to National
Last Train to Clarksville "And I don't know if I'm ever coming home", was an indirect reference about a soldier leaving for the Vietnam War. It has often been presumed that the song refers to Clarksville, Tennessee, which is near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the home of the 101st Airborne Division, which was then serving in Vietnam. However, according to songwriter Bobby Hart, that was not the case. Instead, according to Hart, "We were just looking for a name that sounded good. There's a little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the way to Oak Creek Canyon called