 places where the military had tried to expand the railway network and had failed for various reasons. Whether that was for geographical reasons, Myanmar's surrounded by mountain ranges, and that's historically been a big barrier to central control, or whether it was because the military had started building a railway and then local insurgent groups recognising the railways for what they were, they were really weapons, would fight back. And so often I found myself picking along abandoned railways and finding I came to a place where