Myanmar Rail Loop Gets an Upgrade

Lines of vehicles progress slowly toward the city center.

Many of Yangon’s buses are imported used from China.

Workers for a small company returning home on the back of a truck with attached roofing.

The Yangon Circular Railway is marked in red.

Myanma Railways Divisional Traffic Manager U Zaw Lwin.

There are few passengers around lunchtime at the YCR platform in Yangon Central Station.

At Yangon Central, the time for the next train is indicated on a handwritten sign.

The platform at this station has been raised and remodeled.

Passenger carriages pulled by a battered locomotive.

Parami Station is in a residential area.

Passengers getting on and off at Parami Station. Carriage doors are always open.

Danyingon Station is located alongside a market; it can be difficult to see where the station ends and the stalls begin.