Thai railway market back on track post-pandemic

Six times a day at the Mae Klong Railway Market, local customers and foreign tourists scramble into nooks and crannies while vendors calmly move their woven baskets of goods away from the tracks and close their umbrellas to make way.

Her family has run a stall in the bazaar — nicknamed in Thai"talad rom hup", or the umbrella-pull-down market — for five decades, and she's never witnessed an accident. "It was crazy and hectic," she told AFP."I was shocked at how big the train was in the small amount of space.NOT JUST FOR TOURISTS But even without them, fishmonger Somporn Thathom — a stallholder since 1988 — said business was finally picking up after two years of hardship and financial strain.

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Thai railway market back on track post-pandemicSAMUT SONGKHRAM, Thailand: A train bell rouses a Thai grandmother dozing in her fruit and flower stall, sending her rushing to fold in her awning before the locomotive slowly rumbles past, so close it almost touches her wares. Six times a day at the Mae Klong Railway Market, local customers and foreign tou
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