Saturday, 23 August 2008

Day in Pictures : Train in Cambodia

Cambodians with their carts wait in line to cross the border between Thailand and Cambodia at Poipet. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES


The former Poipet Railway Station in Cambodia is houses many families who moved in after trains services there were destroyed. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES


Chief of Train, Mr Kong Thom,55, takes a nap amidst boxes of milk powder and ketchup on the freight train as it travels from Sisophon to Phnom Penh. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

Chan Sreynoch, 23, with her husband Touh Sopheak, 24, and son, Khon Bopha, 7 months, in their home- an abandoned wooden train carriage. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

Cambodians taking the bamboo rail from one village to another. The bamboo 'train' plys along a stretch of 30km. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

Cows are being transported by the bamboo rail to Battambang market to be slaughtered. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

Children at an abandoned train carriage that is now houses a 3 generation family. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

The interior of a passenger train in Cambodia. The country has only one passenger trains service that travels between Phnom Penh and Battambang. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

Mr Leng Savath, 56, the freight train driver in Cambodia. He sometimes gets to drive the train only once a month. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES

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