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is a ghost station in the south of the democratic republic of congo. there's been no train service for five months but now it's running again. the train left lubumbashi the

second largest city five days ago. no one knows when it will arrive. and the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name lee hall and bell or the swallow. for. news of the swallows arrival spreads like wildfire via the bush telegraph all word of mouth. it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like rides like wildfire via the bush telegraph all word of mouth.

it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. of them a street vendors at every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant market. yeah. look i don't know the end of the ideal home but we're at yeah right. now you know you remember but no no no. no no no no. no. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamor for remaining seats but.

this is not the only. claim on has been riding this train for twenty years he knows what to expect. this ill temper says it was a decision deducted it was the. big. city . some of the few days before this before the business. so this it's a sonic as i said if. you. look people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people

altogether three times the officially permitted capacity. for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the root. of what it is and you say that it is ok simple logic to well let's you got that much ever but only did what you said it was that some of them were. located in the heart of the continent the democratic republic of congo is the largest country in sub-saharan africa. the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to aleppo and is the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years. the old engine was bought second

hand in south africa. a relay of ten drivers is needed to cover the one thousand six hundred kilometer journey. but. the driver is sixty three years old missed him a long go has one of the hardest parts of the trip one hundred twenty kilometers of trouble saying about the road where we've never done that it said. so right there that is on the same time that i thought about said yeah all right officer. that's why the trip was the severance that there is here that there have been. mr malone go is the master on board and supplements his income by allowing ten passengers to

travel in the dr his cabinet. it's as close as he gets to first class on the train . you. get. back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and move around the carriage. it's something clima can get used to. like it but they said. since it. was in my head it will be somewhere else in sussex i don't go to no think what they think you see a lot of this was just one does a compact among them from the song baby song they put up the middle of the loop when you know the. passengers take as much luggage as they can.

so put a corner me there. when they say dixie was it equally possible i love. you. the full song too we're. supposed to play alone was appalled to see them up here but do you believe extraordinary things sometimes happen. you know much as i. know you. don't want to see what you want to add to that what those again those are and then you might find some of. the most annoying son son. but. he does manage to argue we are very encouraged that was on your side that you took. the train can also be a death trap. to be told it's a sore foot because i said

a third i'm a sucker for. they did. it. to help us in my life in. the. last year of the snake as maine and several passengers. and those in third class risked their lives here on the rigs. and they can easily get knocked off the moving train. right now wait i can have an hour before going up what's sad sad sad sad sad sad sad not going to school no not going to smoke boy we're talking about the flu. his fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. flaw.

but the big bad joke. was that. the danger comes not just from above but also from the sun. even if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can come like a machete. but that would be a lot of the dollars some are good and there's a lot of other. supporters the better part of six.

these are some of the remotest areas of the d.r. congo. as dawn breaks free men are preparing for a long journey. they're traveling salesman trading in kosov a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. we're going on a mobile version yes you know the only one here what it was you were doing what you do does you mom up in the topic or you know one of them was to give them all so much do you go one on one ok when you're a. man and his companions

a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country south. it will probably take them around four or five days. you know to the little you knew. where. most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on dirt tracks so the congolese improvise. and. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise.

now looking into your. live son of. school you know him be sure to put a foot or put a foot in if you. don't know my name was difficult to see you. tonight. but. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. with the.

method no. one was there. i was there. who know me i know. by nightfall they reach a village. to once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal for the day. the i. hear the bendis you impose him over the top. one you can

a woman son. good enough to go for single notes. you know fine you need to. come over when i was. doing new york with you good luck to wind up my song was just if the only major fun was just coming on in the muslim world to live place you don't like it well because it was a joke when the window muscles. did income and oh say do you look at them like. you do need we don't know what they don't know. the village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor.

yeah there are photos of yeah the horns. a man and his family are on the train. by waving a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush. cup so i'm just. going to that would you just really i don't know yet where what when where i mean. it's often like this. hard work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. or never ever survive that part of the. a couple of i was one of

the first of all what they did for the most over the long. run my. head was going to separate what i. see every go get your pick up a bottle of whiskey to let up on that. but right now his main concern is the state of the truck he has to reduce speed to less than ten kilometers an hour. at this point the rails are not really aligned anymore is it but that's the way. that i like to forward loaded up with this stuff then some of. this stuff fit for me simple to solicit but i.

got just to show. that i said that. if he does not know this is just us going to the dump listening up i said about us just. turned our job you know with reversion to this about those effects argue it out yet is good i will not go. back in the bush man and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. can't wait til it's the fifth time and one day. without a repair kit to a new in a cheap postman patches the punch up with a piece of rubber from an old t.v.

and hopes for the best. oh. oh. oh. oh. this man and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. and you'll come up with a full and you're sure to be a good luck on with son daughter king in one ng but good for you but help with who we give me a job who green you know you don't want to hear the bottom up on. that

. day and your hunger thirst and fatigue. they barely have the strength to push their bikes any further. the one. thing. i know the part well it could all go where we all will go from there. but thank you for my beautiful moment i wondered the corner you. might make a good. and

perhaps their prayers have been on since the rain has stopped and they finally arrived. one young. girl on. a farm.

the three companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a week's time they live and enough money to feed their families. back home build the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. something under the sun. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed

him a long go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually it comes to a complete still. the fact that it does so in the middle of the village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage if he suspects the vendors who were known as traffickers in the congo. this is because he thought. he felt the sun. roof over after the one got through the book that the us had it's very different i first got my feet. back and we go back to the fast. food.

methods but then again i would limit get to the tonight. who do you know if you did not have to fly over i don't remember going to one of the big ten has been riding the swallow for ten years on this trip he selling sold during while the next time he'll sell something else about it on the way the train provides him with a living i want to do so but i forgot so to do my children and to government to do it to them it will have to be my last morning isn't it will not be so it's eloquent about but they said if i. knew so much it never is about that if you can most of this without the know would tend to come as an absolute does only one of the. yet to be so cruel to use. that. was long. and how.

long. do you want to. list them along go still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching a labor of the trains final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer journey will have taken eight days. the swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of congolese. why the sky why should be no borders up here one only horizons. as an airline we don't believe in boundaries we believe in bringing people together

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