The bamboo trains

This is the railway that looks like if it was built especially for the railway fans. A norry, or a bamboo train – is a draisine that operates on a long rail track in Cambodia.

While it is of utmost importance to show the video how norries use a single track to provide a bidirectional service, this passage from the Wikipedia worth mentioning:

A scheduled service run by the Government also operates but is slower and less reliable due to frequent derailments and breakdowns… Norries have low fares, are frequent and relatively fast, so are popular despite their rudimentary design, lack of brakes, the state of the rails (often broken or warped) and lack of any formal operating regime…

So that’s how the bamboo train passes another oncoming bamboo train on a single track:

About Dima Chertov

Three daughters. Always sleepy. Daynapping at least twice a week. Dreaming of travels while awake and asleep. Russian citizen, Eastern European in my heart though. Would like to live in a world with no borders, no visas, no immigration laws, yet should cope with quite the opposite around here.
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