Every Night, This Dog Waits in Vain for the Same Train Car

WATCH: In Mumbai, a street dog returns to a train station every night to wait for a passenger that never arrives.

There are some things in life you can count on. The sun is going to come up tomorrow morning, and the certainty of taxes will still be there indefinitely. At a train station in India, there seems to be a canine constant as well.

Since January 2, a stray female dog has been consistently visiting the Kanjurmarg Railway Station in Mumbai. When the Kalyan-bound train comes every night around 11 p.m., she chases after the women's coach, peeking into doorways and scanning windows in search of something—or someone. (Related: "Welcome to the Land of a Thousand Stray Dogs")

"I think someone has left her or she was abandoned," says Sameer Thorat, a local who filmed the clip. As

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