Watching these videos, Western concepts of personal space and queueing are completely dismantled. You witness people entering a train that is already visibly filled beyond human capacity, yet through a strange combination of pushing, pulling, and sheer willpower, they manage to squeeze inside. The videos capture the surreal architecture of these spaces: people sleeping on the floor under the seats, families creating makeshift tents out of bedsheets hanging from the upper berths, and passengers sitting precariously on the ledge of the open train doors, their bodies half-outside the moving train, framed against the blur of the Indian subcontinent.

If you are looking for specific train classes or types, here is a quick guide to common abbreviations: