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CAMBODIAN rail concessionaire Royal Railway announced on March 21 that it will launch a trial passenger service on its metre-gauge line from the capital Phnom Penh to the port city of Sihanoukville on April 9.

 

 

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I wonder how the expanded freight and passenger service will interface with the bamboo railcars. 

 

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Pattaya (Thailand) One, 9/1/17:
 

‘Bamboo Train’ Cambodia’s homegrown is end of the line

 

 

Battambang, Cambodia – With a wooden platform jerry-rigged to a small engine, Cambodia’s one-of-a-kind “Bamboo Train” delights tourists as it clatters through bucolic countryside — but its days are numbered as the Southeast Asian nation plans a railways overhaul.

 

The bamboo-lined flat trollies are a testament to Cambodian creativity and enterprise in an impoverished nation with little infrastructure. They were first invented as part of a homegrown, unofficial transport system to make use of the country’s abandoned colonial-era train tracks but later morphed into a popular tourist attraction. But the hallowed site in northwestern Battambang province will soon be no more as a government project to refurbish the country’s dilapidated rail system inches closer.

 

That is especially worrying news for the community of drivers, ticket-takers and snack vendors who live off the proceeds from the unique attraction that has become a fixture on the tourist circuit.  .  .  .

 

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