Stock Photo - Hanoi Train Street, Vietnam - narrow that residents must ensure their bikes and personal belongings, including roaming children and chickens are all safely inside the house before the train passes. . On departing from Hanoi station, heading South to Hue and Hoi An. Just don´t stick your head out the window. Hidden amidst the hectic, narrow streets of the Hanoi Old Quarter lies a small area, where motorbikes are no longer the biggest danger to both locals and visitors. There´s a train, hurtling through the residential street, mere feet away from people´s everyday-lives. Their dishes and laundry drying by the tracks are hastily removed before the train´s twice daily passing - once north and once south. A boom is pulled across the local road to stop the constant motorcycle, pedestrian and vehicle traffic. . The boom master has a difficult time in getting it closed as no-one has time to stop!.