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camino 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.
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but the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name live on dell or the swallow. by. 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 a local bus it stops a virtually every station and draws huge crowds. half of them a street vendors at every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant market. i am
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a bit unclear. i don't know if that is the idea of home program yet i wrote that there are several. there. but i'm going to the time good. bye. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed so. passengers clamber for remaining seats. said. clement has been riding this train for twenty years. he knows what to expect. come see but he got there i think because the self emphasizing said this is the ducks in the
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fall of both places. he. said to simulate. young today. not so much the distance to your day for these people for the business. but this i say he said so this it's a sonic as i said if. the people cram into whatever space they can find nearly two thousand people all together 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. images or you didn't know what it is and he said that it is only a few simple words it will let you go down that much i want to tell you but only
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did what you said i was upset about. was. 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
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mr malone go has one of the hardest parts of the trip. one hundred twenty kilometers of trouble saying about the red. dot we've never done that it said this i got so. that is on the subject that i thought about said you're already a physical that's why the triple is the severance that there is here and there have probably. been. mr malone go is the monster on board and supplements his income by allowing ten passengers to travel in the driver's cabin. it's as close as he gets to first class on the train . but. back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and move around the carriage. it's something
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klim all get used to. i know you are but that was said it's own plus in the us he said it could be said all pervasive myth about the what. if this sends us he said then did you not think what this simple says a lot of big this new goose just wants us to call buffy among them on the sunday before they put up with the people who. would you know the. passengers take as much luggage as they can. it is a myth so they clearly so put it on the media. on a cd expose it equally falsify luck. to you. and if the fossil. supposed to play along as of old to see the film of the. extraordinary things sometimes happen. i must see moment
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as it was my scene and that you. don't want to see what you want to do and i didn't want those again that was there and then you might find some of. the mostly sunny side of. him. but. he does. argue we have i mean come. on you say that you took. the train can also be a death trap to load they fought to be bloody successful for it because i sit at sup if i did not think it did for such gus nossal which our gun laws deal to force him out to help us in my life the. last year of the snake his name and several passengers.
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and those in third class risked their lives up here on the route. they can easily get knocked off the moving train. and now when i come to know before going up with. her that is out because of them was going to be spoiled boy with. his fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. but they believe that. good to see. the danger comes not just from above but also from the sun. even if the moderate
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speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can come like a machete. is everywhere all over the. so far there's a lot of other. so forth your best reporters say. since. 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 training in kosov
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a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. before going on a mobile go there should be a should know the only year what it was you were doing what you do does your mom want them on the topic or you one of them was to kill them all so much do you go one on one o one your big. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country so. it will probably take them around four or five days. you look at the little you will lose.
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most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on the tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of much of don's. no food you. live with on the. market if you know. you know. what it would have put a foot in the kitchen what you need. to know my name was difficult.
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to do much. better but. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. feat leafed. just feel. better than them. no you know we are no more but was there full of it down my local dipping was in
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john or was there something good to know we know. by nightfall they reach a village. for once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in a church. this will be their only meal of the day. here to bindis you post your mobile to do. you guys you can a woman whose son was good enough to go for seen you know it's going. you know funny you know. come over we know the book. but you do. wind up must see if we make up on it was just too much fun in the. place you don't like duke. it was
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a joke with all muscle. at the mush still didn't we don't get all. the village of kissed the two is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. voters or. a man and his family are on the tracks. by waving a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of
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the bush go up up. up so i'm just. going to but would you please don't hurt me i don't know yet. what when where i mean i'm sure. it's often like this. holiday work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. or never ever survive never mind it out of the gutter never have thought of first of all what they did for their double shuffle. around my. head was going to separate. see ever go get your pick up a bottle of whiskey for the love of it.
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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 any little bit of progress. that are locked therefore loaded up with this. stuff. this outfit a simple society said fuck i. got to fish. that i said you got. to get out this is just rust like the dump risky up i said about lasts just. turn dodge or go with reversion regardless of what those effects are to it yet is good i will not go.
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back in the bush 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. it's the fifth time in one day. without a repair kit to a new in a cheap. patches the puncher with a piece of rubber from an old cheap one hopes for the best.
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most men and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. and you'll come up with a full on your show the vehicle was on what a good name. but good for you open up what dealt with we came in to greenville you don't want a few bottom up on. that . day and your hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.
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you know. what i'm going to quarrel when we all went. home and went to the corner q. my mike came to me. and perhaps their prayers have been answered the rain has stopped and they finally arrived. when no. one yeah. well you. woke well the world was on.
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your show that. bit about the. minute. oh you. mean i saw. a bump on yo yo. yo camilla scalp was some no. longer going to be you going up. to the up on. so you want to.
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be your whoa whoa whoa. 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. some from there. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed him along go is confronted with a new problem if the train is losing speed. eventually it comes to a complete stop. the thing that he does so in the middle of the village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage if he suspects the vendor is the one known as traffickers in the congo.
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i mean. this is really for the people who saw. it go on through the love of god through books that does that it's very different i just got off the. bike would go back and. make goods but again i would love to get to the tonight. who do you know if you got a lot of good to know by flying over i don't know did anybody. has been riding the swallow for ten years on this trip he's selling soldiering while the next time he'll sell something else out of it on the way the train provides him with
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a living will want to do what russian guy suited to my children and to government to do to little or to see my lot more new isn't it blue not be so is a local about but they said if a bit but what then are you. nervous about that if you go most in august about that you know we were going to succumb was an absolute does only one of us looked at the other no muslim yet to be so rude and crude. that the motor motor would fight it out but. how. could one. missed him along those still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching their labor to trains final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred
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kilometer journey will have taken eight days. to swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of continually. right. the way we communicate is what defines us. you don't always has been.
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