YANGON, Myanmar -- To ride Yangon’s charmingly decrepit Circle Line train is to ride through history. Built more than 60 years ago to connect rural suburbs and townships to the city’s commercial heart ...

Nyein Sanda works in an office not much larger than a closet in the central train station in Yangon, Myanmar. His ticket booth on platform 7 hosts a constant stream of tourists looking to ride the ...

The Yangon Circle Train, which winds its way round the suburbs of Myanmar’s former capital, is surely one of the world’s great railway bargains. A ticket for a three-hour journey costs 200 kyat ...

In Photo: A passenger looks out of a Circle Line train, as others who just disembarked walk along the tracks in Yangon, Myanmar. The charmingly decrepit line, built more than 60 years ago to connect ...