Foreigners find tickets to ride on nation's railways are hard to buy

Faced with the language barrier and cultural divide, foreigners are finding it hard to buy rail tickets in China ahead of Spring Festival.

More than 300 million people are forecast to travel home by rail to celebrate the festival, which falls on Feb 8.

But most railway stations don't provide English-language services for international travelers, according to a staff member at China Railway Corp. The employee was speaking on the company hotline, which also has no English service.