Travelers crowd Beijing's west railway station as they try to buy tickets Friday, Jan. 20, 2006.

About 100,000 people, many of which tried to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday, were stranded at the station on Thursday as snowfall disrupted services on a key north-south route.

Up to 20 trains were delayed by several hours from leaving the capital due to snow in Zhengzhou, causing chaos during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.