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China's Old - but still working - Trains

It's the national day hollidays in China and the train is fully booked. A lot of passenger could only get "standing" tickets and are stuck in the middle of the carriage for the whole journey - often creating tensions such as the one in this video between...

from YouTube on Thu, Oct 04 2007

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