Northern Line Blocked By Derailed Freight Train

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Northern Line Blocked By Derailed Freight Train

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: TGr_79 / Flickr

 

PHRAE — Passengers in the north were stranded overnight after a freight train derailed, blocking the northern rail line.

 

State Railway workers Friday morning removed the freight train after its locomotive left the tracks in the Long district of Phrae at about 6:40pm last night, stranding about 500 passengers at the Lampang City station. The train was heading to Lampang’s Mae Mo district. The railway said full service should be restored by noon.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/transpo/2018/09/21/northern-line-blocked-by-derailed-freight-train/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-09-21

[RotMahKid]

What a ridiculous one track system can do.

[Esso49]

2 minutes ago, RotMahKid said:

What a ridiculous one track system can do.

Its the Toytown infrastructure

[Cadbury]

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

Line Blocked By Derailed Freight Train

And that's only a slow speed train. It is going to be interesting when a high speed train derails. Which it will do at some stage; if it ever gets built. Maintenance in any form is not high on the Thai priority list.

[bluesofa]

7 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

And that's only a slow speed train. It is going to be interesting when a high speed train derails. Which it will do at some stage; if it ever gets built. Maintenance in any form is not high on the Thai priority list.

Absolutely.

It will be interesting to see if it follows the Thai-Chinese railway 'being built' at the moment.

I've seen nothing in the press since the PM had his photo-opportunity in the ground-breaking ceremony in December last year.

But I'm sure it will be completed by 2021, of course. <sarcasm alert>

 

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Hundreds of passengers left stranded after train derails in Lampang

 

 

The rail traffic in the North was suspended this morning as the operation to salvage a petroleum-transporting train derailing Thursday night in Lampang was still underway after 12 hours of attempting to remove the derailed train.

 

Hundreds of passengers were left stranded in Lampang from last night until this morning when a special shuttle bus service began to transport them to Denchai station in neighbouring Phrae from where they would be able to travel on by train to Bangkok, Thai media reported.

 

Both northern-bound and Bangkok-bound trains operated between the North and Bangkok have been suspended since the derailment took place last night between Pha Khan station and Pang Puay Khrae station, an area between Lampang’s Mae Mo district and Phrae’s Long district.

 

Full story: http://www.thaipbsworld.com/hundreds-of-passengers-left-stranded-after-train-derails-in-lampang/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-09-21

[hansnl]

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

And that's only a slow speed train. It is going to be interesting when a high speed train derails. Which it will do at some stage; if it ever gets built. Maintenance in any form is not high on the Thai priority list.

If you had any knowledge about rail infrastructure and maintenance, you would know that in the last few years the quality of the existing rail network has been brought to a level as never before and indeed equal to European levels.

Derailments can happen anywhere and any time, it may be something in the track or something in the locomotive, in this case.

The fact that the line is still single track means the derailment needs to be cleared and the track to be repaired.

If there was double track depending on which side the derailment was, it might take more time or less time to clear the lines.

Being an oil train derailed makes everything more difficult.

 

Edited September 21, 2018 by hansnl

[CLW]

If you had any knowledge about rail infrastructure and maintenance, you would know that in the last few years the quality of the existing rail network has been brought to a level as never before and indeed equal to European levels.
Derailments can happen anywhere and any time, it may be something in the track or something in the locomotive, in this case.
The fact that the line is still single track means the derailment needs to be cleared and the track to be repaired.
If there was double track depending on which side the derailment was, it might take more time or less time to clear the lines.
Being an oil train derailed makes everything more difficult.
 

From my experience with using the train network in Thailand I think the rail structure has been improved and upgraded almost every section.
The "klack-klack" sound from the past which indicates broken or loose sleepers has been almost eliminated.
Nowadays all sleepers are concrete and replace the wooden ones.
Still a one-way track network isn't up-to-date.
Any malfunction causes a complete closure and also the timing and frequency of trains can be difficult.