Empty seats
train fails to pick up passengers
Beijing-large numbers of chinese people cram into trains to get to their home provinces during the lunar new year break However two holidaymakers were surprised to find that they were the only passengers on beijing bound train There was nobody else on the train and there was not enough heating or light the beijing youth daily quoted passenger zhang as saying on february 5. It turned out that train l342 bound for beijing from shanxi province had been laid on as a temporary train to ease crowding on other trains. Authorities neglected to set a proper schedule for the train and only two men had climbed aboard when the driver set off for beijing-reuters