The train now standing at floor seven!

Urban planners in a packed Chinese city have come up with a creative way of solving space issues – by building a light railway track through a hole in a 19-storey block of flats.

A special railway station has also been built into the block of houses, set into the sixth to eighth floors of the building in Chongqing in the south east of the country. 

 

The city has a population of 49 million packed into 31,000 square miles. 

 

A city transport spokesman said:

Even though residents are living in close quarters to a busy train station, any noise has been muffled by special equipment.