<p>The word overcrowding doesn't quite do it.
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<p>Hanging from doors, sitting on the roof and clinging to buffers, rails and handles, hundreds of pilgrims somehow managed to find a space aboard this train in Pakistan.
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<p>Commuters in Britain might grumble about packed carriages and late arrivals, but for these passengers just finding a perch on the groaning train was enough.
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<p>And yet, judging by their smiles and waves, the battle for space was a pretty good-natured affair.
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<p class="imageCaption">Hold on tight! Muslims pilgrims cling on to a train leaving the ancient city of Multan in Pakistan
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<p>Hanging from doors, sitting on the roof and clinging to buffers, rails and handles, hundreds of pilgrims somehow managed to find a space aboard this train in Pakistan.
</p>
<p>Commuters in Britain might grumble about packed carriages and late arrivals, but for these passengers just finding a perch on the groaning train was enough.
</p>
<p>And yet, judging by their smiles and waves, the battle for space was a pretty good-natured affair.
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<p class="imageCaption">Hold on tight! Muslims pilgrims cling on to a train leaving the ancient city of Multan in Pakistan
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