Ukraine conflict: Thousands of people try to force their way onto a train to Poland - BBC News
Ukraine invasion: Warning shots fired to control crowds at Kyiv station - BBC News
This is quite like the situation in Paris that was portrayed in the film Casablanca, described in the memoir Destiny's Journey by Alfred Doeblin, and in Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll. Except that it's worse and depends on the power for traction remaining on.
What authors and journalists rarely discuss is the viewpoint of the employees trying to run the railway. On the Eastern front of WWII, Deutsche Reichsbahn used to run equipment trains west after the Wehrmacht pulled out, to keep the Soviet Army from using them and to replace the cars destroyed in those History Channelesque clips from Allied fighter-bomber attacks. I've been caught up doing my work in chaotic crowds a few times, but no one was threatening to bomb or strafe me; health risks in the crowds were the danger. The ability of humans to carry on with their work can be amazing.
Two films do come to mind that showed railway employees caught up in a chaotic situation: The Train and Bhowani Junction. Perhaps others can be suggested.
Ukraine invasion: Warning shots fired to control crowds at Kyiv station - BBC News
This is quite like the situation in Paris that was portrayed in the film Casablanca, described in the memoir Destiny's Journey by Alfred Doeblin, and in Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll. Except that it's worse and depends on the power for traction remaining on.
What authors and journalists rarely discuss is the viewpoint of the employees trying to run the railway. On the Eastern front of WWII, Deutsche Reichsbahn used to run equipment trains west after the Wehrmacht pulled out, to keep the Soviet Army from using them and to replace the cars destroyed in those History Channelesque clips from Allied fighter-bomber attacks. I've been caught up doing my work in chaotic crowds a few times, but no one was threatening to bomb or strafe me; health risks in the crowds were the danger. The ability of humans to carry on with their work can be amazing.
Two films do come to mind that showed railway employees caught up in a chaotic situation: The Train and Bhowani Junction. Perhaps others can be suggested.