A Journey on the Blue Train: Gilded Luxury in the World’s ‘Most Unequal Country’
On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, ...
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Targiz: A Hospital on Rails
Literally. There is no station or train platform. Yet ten red, blue and white train cars marked with a red cross await. It’s Akademik Fyodor Uglov, the Russian train company’s rail hospital.
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Dead or alive? Surviving Pakistan’s 28-hour train hijack in an engine
Assistant train driver Saad Qamar’s family didn’t know if he had been killed. On Thursday, he’ll be back at work.
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A journey on the Blue Train: Gilded luxury in the world’s ‘most unequal country’
We pulled up to a blue carpet next to the central train station in Cape Town, South Africa, where two butlers in blue vests and white gloves greeted us by name and unloaded our luggage before ...