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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.

and the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name lee hall and bell or the swallow the. news of the swallows arrival spreads like wildfire by 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.

am i don't know if that is the idea of home program yeah right that there are several. there. but go to the time good. bye. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamber for remaining seats. has been riding this train for twenty years. he knows what to expect. come see but he got there i think because this ill temper says it said this is just

deducts it was a stunt. they. said to simulate let's. sit by you young today. or not so much did you do your day for these people for their 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 route. and it is really quite open but what it is and he said that it is only a few simple guided tour will let you get up. really deep you said you never

saw. the bog. 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

mr malone go has one of the hardest parts of the trip. one hundred twenty kilometers of trouble see about the road where we've never done that it said the same guy so. that is on the same time that i thought about said there already is a physical about why the trip was this every something that they have probably. missed him along 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. back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and move around the carriage. it's something clear

can't get used to. playing up but that was said bus in the c c said it could be said all pervasive myth about the what. if this sends us he said then did you not think what this includes is a lot of big this was just one bus to call buffy among them on the phone the song they put up with the food. was enough. passengers take as much luggage as they can. it is on them it's an equally so protocol not needed. on a cd expose it clearly falsified. if you. look at the files on. supposed to play along as of old to see the film obviously. extraordinary things sometimes happen. my cinema

is like mice and i know you. don't want to see what you want to do and i didn't want those again those are in the body of some of. the mostly sunny side of. him. but. he does. argue we have i mean i will say that you know. the train can also be a death trap to load they fought to be bloody successful for it because i said at first i'm a sucker fussed about the way they did such gus nossal with a gun laws deal to force him out to help us in my life and. last year the snake is named several passengers.

and those in third class risk their lives up here on the route. they can easily get knocked off the moving train. and now when i come up before going out with. her dad says i believe that something was. the smoke boiling with. his fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. but the big. good to see. the danger comes not just from above but also from the sun. even if the moderate

speed of thirty kilometers an hour on a tree branch can cut like a machete. so there is a lot of a. simple bar there's a lot of other. so forth your best reporters see. 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

a flower and home oil in the villages they work for smile. before going on a mobile version usually know the owner and your what he or she was doing here enjoy what you do does he mom was. off before you one of them was to kill them all so much do you go one on one o one your food food food. 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 the little you want to use.

most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on the 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. if. you. live down the. market if you know. you know. what if what if what if what in the future what you need. to know my name was difficult to speak.

to tonight. but. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. of for. better than them. no you know we are no more but was there full of it down a local dipping was in john or was there something good to know we know.

by nightfall they reach a village. the ones they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal of the day. here in this you put your mobile to do what. you guys you can a woman son would do the north you go forcing you know it's coming. here. you know fine you need you know. go you know they'll. come over you know the book. window plus was just if we made up on it was just too much fun in the. place you

don't like. it was a joke when the window muscle. did look. at the mush even if we don't get to. the village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. yet the. whole. a man and his family are on the track. by waving a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of

the bush and go up up. up so i'm just. going to but would you please just really i don't know yet what 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 that of the doctor never. thought of first of all what they did for the whole show. around my. head was going to separate. see ever go get your pick up a bottle of whiskey to the level of good.

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 good sort of our best way is that our luck therefore loaded up with this. stuff. this outfit a simple society said fuck i. got to fish or. i said you've got. to give up our ability to just trust going to the dump risking up i said about lasts just. turn dodger you know with reversion to the support budget talks argue it out yet is good i will not go.

back in the bush and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day's 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.

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 if you're going to come with on go but i can name one i need but good for you up an office job with we give me a job where you can go you know what if you are well off on. that. day and your hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.

you know. what i'm going to quote although we only got. the moment when did the whole interview. my make a moody. and perhaps dead prez have been on since the rain has stopped and they finally arrived . when no. one yeah. well here you go. whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa the world was on your mind you

know. you're going to. need a foot and. the bit about the. minute. oh yeah. i mean i still put us on a well ok noon bump on yo yo. yo kamila scalp was some no let's go. down going in love and you going up. to the up on. so you want to.

go whoa whoa whoa. the three companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a week's time delavan enough money to feed their families. back on board the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some from them. but just when everything seems more or less normal mr malone go is confronted with a new problem if the train is losing speed. eventually it comes to a complete stall. the fact that he does so in the middle of a 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. this is the fault of people who saw. her go on through the love of god through book that does that it's very different i just got lucky. and i'm. sure it. does but then again i would love to get to the tonight. those who do you know if you got a lot of good but nobody flavor i don't know did anybody. has been riding the swallow for ten years but 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

a living i want to do what russian guy suited to my children and to government to do to learn to love to see my life more new isn't it blue not be so is eloquent about but they said if a bit but what then are you. nervous about going to see the most of this or that that you know we're going to succumb with an absolute those only one about the time that the other no muslim get to. use. the moto motor mount to find out what. one. missed him along go still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching their labor to trains final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer

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