What's special about the New Year's Eve train?

TPO - The train crossing New Year's Eve from the last minutes of the Year of the Dragon to the Year of the Snake carried the last passengers leaving Hanoi station to the South.

TPO - The train crossing New Year's Eve from the last minutes of the Year of the Dragon to the Year of the Snake carried the last passengers leaving Hanoi station to the South.

On the last day of the year, when everyone is preparing for the countdown party and New Year's greetings, there is a group of people still busy with their work. They are the train drivers, railway staff and passengers on train E1, the last train of the year leaving Hanoi station for Ho Chi Minh City.

At 9:00 p.m. on January 28, 3 hours before New Year's Eve, at Hanoi station, the atmosphere was bustling with the last passengers leaving Hanoi station.

Among the passengers on this special year-end train, there were quite a few foreign passengers.

The "Spring Train" with the journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City and vice versa (train SE1 departs from Hanoi station at 10:10 p.m. and train SE4 departs from Saigon station at 7:30 p.m. on January 28).

Thong Nhat SE1 train with more than 100 passengers, most of whom are international tourists, experiences celebrating Tet on the journey to the South.

Passengers on this train can participate in many interesting and attractive experiences throughout the journey such as countdown; the "Lucky Draw" program at the beginning of the year, with lucky money prizes of 200,000 VND, 500,000 VND and the Special Prize is a "voucher to exchange for a pair of free train tickets" valid for use in 2025. Along the train, there will be artists and painters to welcome spring with the passengers on the train.

Not only are there candies and jams to celebrate Tet on this long railway journey across the country, many folk games are also arranged in the compartment.

The SE1 passenger train to the South will be dressed in a splendid spring picture with peach blossoms, while the SE4 passenger train to the North will be decorated with yellow apricot blossoms.

This is a project that many artists have been carrying out for more than half a month after the success of the heritage train in Hue - Da Nang.

International passengers receive lucky money envelopes to welcome the new year.

Leaders of the Ministry of Transport came to wish a happy new year and give lucky money to employees on the train traveling through New Year's Eve.

At exactly 10:10 pm on the 29th of Tet, the train departed from Hanoi station. According to the plan, early morning on the 2nd of Tet, the train will arrive at Saigon station.

Referee - Hoang Manh Thang

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