High speed rail: Pattaya to Bangkok in well under an hour - around 300 baht!

 

Image: Sanook

 

Basic times and prices have been announced for the confirmed high speed train linking U-Tapao airport with Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang in Bangkok.

 

The journey time between U-Tapao and the capital will be a mouth watering 45 minutes.

 

The cost of the journey will be just 330 baht. Speeds will reach 250 km per hour.

 

The train will stop five times from Bangkok at Chacherngsao, Chonburi, Sri Racha, Pattaya and U-Tapao.

 

A government ministerial meeting rubber-stamped the project yesterday that is part of ambitious plans to develop the much vaunted Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

 

Source: Sanook

 

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I hope the trains don't cross any roads. Most people around here can't see a train coming at 50kph, let alone 250.

Good idea if the project doesn't go off the rails. 

So they've not begun to build the track yet but already have a timetable and fare structure in place.  Who said Thailand was not progressive?

A government ministerial meeting rubber stamped the project

The local merc dealer is already counting his commission.

Not that familiar with the place names or the map - does this stop at either airport? Or would you have to get off this somewhere and take another train to get to the airport? (I get that they haven't exactly fixed the route let alone built it, but given the stops that the article listed)

Please learn to count. 

No way you can do 220 km in 45 minutes running at 250 km/h,

and even far worse if you have to stop at 7 stations on the way !

I like this idea.

7 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

I like this idea.

And that is all it will ever be.........

Appreciate the map in Thai language only, makes me feel so informed.

2 minutes ago, HLover said:

Appreciate the map in Thai language only, makes me feel so informed.

Yes and the article says only 5 stops from Bangkok with the map showing 6, it finishes at Rayong not U Tapao. Also, as per the other article Thailand approves $7.2 billion high-speed rail project to link airports wasn't the link from Rayong supposed to go to Hua Hin and already provisional construction started?.

Just now, sandrabbit said:

Yes and the article says only 5 stops from Bangkok with the map showing 6, it finishes at Rayong not U Tapao. Also, as per the other article Thailand approves $7.2 billion high-speed rail project to link airports wasn't the link from Rayong supposed to go to Hua Hin and already provisional construction started?.

Quality reporting.

Submarines and high-speed trains!!  When will they invest in proper waste and wastewater management, which is long overdue??

2 minutes ago, HLover said:

Quality reporting.

Also just noticed it stops at Laem Chabang not Sri Racha .........

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The train will stop five times from Bangkok

So, don't stop at Suwanapumy, the passengers jump.

It's a hand drawn wish list map as it shows the final destination right in the city centre of Rayong, doubt they would get planning permission for that (would be nice though) as the previous plan was to have the station on the west side of the city near Map ta Phut.

1 hour ago, Pattaya46 said:

Please learn to count. 

No way you can do 220 km in 45 minutes running at 250 km/h,

and even far worse if you have to stop at 7 stations on the way !

They have to allow time for the fried chicken vendors enough time to jump off at the last carriage.

1 hour ago, Pattaya46 said:

Please learn to count. 

No way you can do 220 km in 45 minutes running at 250 km/h,

and even far worse if you have to stop at 7 stations on the way !

It's only 120km from Suvarnabhumi and 165km from Don Mueang to Pattaya.

If it truly links all 3 airports with stops at Pattaya and finally Rayong then bring it on.

 

Lets be positive.

5 hours ago, Wiggy said:

I hope the trains don't cross any roads. Most people around here can't see a train coming at 50kph, let alone 250.

LOL. Hi speed trains have to be elevated precisely so they don't collide with vehicles. The devastation would extend far from the accident site.

 

As they are apparently connecting to U Tapao this might have a chance of being useful. The plan should include opening U Tapao as a full service international airport to take the pressure off Swampy.

It'll also help move the "hoped for" crowds of rich people going to the Riviera of SEA ( Pattaya ).

Of course, it'll take more than one journey each day to be viable.

5 minutes ago, Toshiba66 said:

Lets be positive.

I would but have been here way too long for that 

They have to work out the endccosts first to make sure enough revenue available to divert into the officials pockets and therefore keep the wheels greased. Building it and other planning issues are secondary as with all Thai projects with a potentially large revenue stream. Don't forget bringing happiness back to the people... The right people of course.

34 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

Yes and the article says only 5 stops from Bangkok with the map showing 6, it finishes at Rayong not U Tapao. Also, as per the other article Thailand approves $7.2 billion high-speed rail project to link airports wasn't the link from Rayong supposed to go to Hua Hin and already provisional construction started?.

They mean it will stop 5 times ON THE JOURNEY.

 

Does anyone know what the blue blob on the line is for?

Laem Chebang port covers four tambons one in Bang Lamung district the other three in Sriracha district.  Therefore, most people would consider the port to be "in Sriracha."

The 'stops' question is still convoluted but even when they mention the number of stops, the list includes the terminals so this is not not part of the total time.  And often there are trains that only make the main stops and trains that make all stops so the time could be actually correct for a 'ewer stop train' and this type of system is standard in any Asian country with high speed rail routes (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan).

 

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Does anyone know what the blue blob on the line is for?

I'd hazard a guess as Bangkok?

Dreaming,45 min is unrealistic,the train will never reach the speed of 250km/h the distances between the cities are to short,the train needs a while to reach 250 and also needs a while to stop

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The blue blob on the map is well past swampy.

but has Bangkok written above it in red

Just now, sandrabbit said:

but has Bangkok written above it in red

I'm wrong. It probably is Swampy.

5 stops?

i think 1 stop......and broken down for ever .

 

More then 10 years ago they started building the huge pilers, you could see the work advance when you drove from Pattaya to BKK. it were first big pits , filled op with steel and concrete and then the huge pillars went up.........

Then the work stopped.....and they started to break down those pillars ,and even removing the structures underground.......why? Because the contractor did not put in the right ammount of steel ! They could not find out who the contractor was and the money 

was gone . So a new (family related) contracter started over all over again .....probably with even less steel ?

And now they say a train will do high speed on the track ,5555, they can not even control streetdogs......water-polution......smoking on the beach.....helmets....what a joke.

1 minute ago, lucjoker said:

5 stops?

i think 1 stop......and broken down for ever .

 

More then 10 years ago they started building the huge pilers, you could see the work advance when you drove from Pattaya to BKK. it were first big pits , filled op with steel and concrete and then the huge pillars went up.........

Then the work stopped.....and they started to break down those pillars ,and even removing the structures underground.......why? Because the contractor did not put in the right ammount of steel ! They could not find out who the contractor was and the money 

was gone . So a new (family related) contracter started over all over again .....probably with even less steel ?

And now they say a train will do high speed on the track ,5555, they can not even control streetdogs......water-polution......smoking on the beach.....helmets....what a joke.

???????????

Which pillars are you referring to.

If it's Hopewell, that was built in the 90s and stopped because of corruption.