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The trip was adventurous but marred with the dustiness incidental to dry season in Nigeria and the featherweight soot-dirt of burnt bushes stirred by the agitations of air by the train along the rail line.

Sorry, My battery went down. Didn't I envisage that? No! I prepared my mind I was going to ride in a first class couch, where there is said to be a charging port for each passenger.

A project by Abia govt, hmnhmn. They say na shopping mall

Umuahia

On the move once again

Stopped at Omoba to pick passengers. The villagers sell nmanya ngwo here.

A power station

Off we go.

Many passengers seem to be boarding the train here

In Aba

Later, around 8.26am, a man to check tickets. Four boys trailed behind just him like they were his bodyguards, ready to pounce on any offender. I felt they all wanted to do the checking together for the sake of record reconciliation.

After their round, my ticket changed form.

Stopped at IMO River station to pick passengers.

basbone:
i still say, thank God for GEJ!! If its a northern president, he will not give a fvck about eastern rails.....and leave us to the mercy of some tyrants that call themselves igbo governors......can you imagine N650 from PH to enugu!!? How much is a bus fare on the same distance please

Least is about N1,400

flinton:
Where u using a pin hole camera?

Hahahaha

No much dust when speeding through a nonresidential area, in the bush.
Just passed Some oil facility between Elelenwo and Obigbo

basbone:
Thank God for GEJ!!

Some passengers here are having a first time experience.

Slows down when it gets to a cross road. Now it stops at Elelenwo sub, some guys jumped inin.

I now see why the inside of the train was dusty, a lot of dusts whirls around each time the train gathers speed. I don't know if the dust gets inside the first class coach as well.

A trash dumpsite around woji + Elelenwo

Oginigba-Woji bridge

A young man had come and said they told him to enter without ticket. We however urged him to go buy one. He later went out and I heard one of the officials angrily decrying what some of the conductors do. They would come in later and collect the money from such passenger and pocket same. Some people and corruption sha.

Wow! Just passed Waja, Batcher plenty along the rail that side o. Phew!

Saw some parts of D-line I never knew existed, a junkyard inclusive.

Through mile 1 market

The train started honking its horn by 7.13am. It jerked and started rolling.

I was disappointed when I got inside. The seats were dusty, very dusty. I wonder why they wouldn't have cleaners who would clean the inside at least after every trip the train undertakes.

Around 6.51am, a woman came and announced we could start boarding. We ambled down and started entering the train.

Soon people started ambling towards the train and a young man announced no one should enter the train.

It was 7.39am and we stood, waiting. The train also stood, waiting.

I got here finally by 6.35am. I saw people sitting around some concrete slabs in front of the station building. The environment had a tint of travel all around.
I expected to see a large crowd at the area where I was shown to be the ticketing area, but I kept seeing passengers loitering around. My heart skipped a beat once more. I thought I had missed it. I stopped to ask an old man quarrelling with a woman, subtly though. He seemed to be a worker, a security man or so, while the woman was obviously a passenger, from her words.
"Because I help you open the gate abi?" She said grudgingly while heading to the ticketing office.
"Good morning sir" I greeted the man. I didn't wait for him to respond before I asked: "tickets are still on sale?"
"Go that side" he said, pointing towards the office.
I relaxed.
At the office, a fat man stood before the ticketing point, I waited behind him.
"First class still available?" I asked the lady.
"Sorry sir" she said with a low tone."we are using the first class to launch today, so, it's only the second class that's available today".
"Whoosh!" I said. Should I have still come? I came to board the first class coach. I was disappointed, but I have come. I paid her N650 and was given the ticket below.