These trains, referred to as “norry” in Khmer, encompass a timber body, bamboo decking, an engine and wheels that come from a bust-up wartime tank. They chug up and down the railway line between Battambang and the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

Naturally, they may be illegal, however tolerated because they are so beneficial – and anyhow there's only one actual educate per week up and down the road. Bamboo trains are used for wearing human beings in addition to freight.

A experience on such a may be booked thru maximum motels, or you could set up it via your local motorbike taxi or tuk-tuk driver.

Instead of a educate with carriages, the Battambang bamboo educate is in reality a metal body with bamboo slats that sits on two axles with wheels. It is used to move humans and items up and down the railway. The bamboo slats form the base on which the passengers, items and livestock sit. It can convey some thing as a way to match on it, even motorcycles. It is likewise used to transport the rice within the harvest season. The Cambodian call for the train is norry. It is an creative invention. After the days of the Khmer Rouge, the land mines were cleared from the tracks, and the nearby residents constructed dozens of those miniature trains.