Some fifty miles southwest of the centre of Bangkok is a sleepy town that is home to a popular local market selling fruits and vegetables, seafood and dried meats and other miscellaneous goods.

What’s unusual about the market is that the vendor’s stalls run parallel to, and physically on, a 300-feet stretch of active railway track! 

Some eight times a day, the signal of the arriving train rings and chaos erupts: vendors rush to close their sun-protective umbrellas and canvases and clear their goods off the tracks that may obstruct the incoming train. Hundreds of tourists and locals line the tracks taking selfies and just experiencing the sheer madness of the occasion. 

The train passes, the vendors rush out to open their umbrellas and replace their goods on the track until the next train blows its whistle and it all starts again!