Rail Network: Ticket Office and Cowdray Park

rail network: The rail network collapsed under President Robert Mugabe, who ruled for nearly four decades until he was ousted in 2017, according to The Guardian. At Cowdray Park, there is no platform or station, only a makeshift ticket office made out of an old carriage sitting in a field. Commuters queue to buy tickets as the sun rises over the Cowdray Park settlement The popular service was revived in November after being suspended for 13 years. En route, the train stops several times to pick up more passengers who stream in from surrounding homes, climbing up the steps and squeezing into 14 packed carriages. The prices for kombis minibuses went up to two dollars, and that's just too expensive, says Sipeka Mushoma, 61, a an HGV driver at a Bulawayo steel manufacturer, who managed to grab a rare early seat. The Freedom train approaches a station in the early morning Soon after 7am, the train pulls into Bulawayo's grand but dilapidated station and disgorges about 2,000 workers, uniformed schoolchildren and other travellers into the city centre, ready for the day ahead. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.