SRT 'ready' to handle holiday commuters

By The Nation

 

The SRT has prepared 245 train routes to transport 96,746 passengers around the country and make sure that no New Year holiday commuters are left behind at Bangkok railway station on Saturday.

 

Thakoon Intharachom, director of the train operation division, said the State Railway of Thailand would be ready to provide extra train services if needed to ensure that all passengers leave Bangkok and get to their destination.

 

On Friday, he said, the SRT provided 244 normal train routes and three extra routes to transport more than 100,000 passengers nationwide.

 

He said passengers could call the 1690 SRT hotline around the clock to inquire about available train services.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30361336

 

 

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I really do wonder sometimes:-

 

20 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The SRT has prepared 245 train routes to transport 96,746 passengers...

 

20 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

the SRT provided 244 normal train routes and three extra routes to transport more than 100,000 passengers nationwide.

 

 

They are putative passengers at holiday time, not commuters.

12 hours ago, Crossy said:

I really do wonder sometimes:-

 

 

 

 

Trainspotters head on:

They have 244 normal services, and 3 relief trains running.

 

I rather doubt that they have the locomotives or rolling stock to put together any more relief trains, judging by the amount of stock stored (dumped) in various yards up and down the system.

 

Last time I traveled on the Chiang Mai - Bangkok sleeper, the front vehicle was a very old carriage (wooden seats) which was being used to carry parcels. I managed to persuade the guard to let me up there to listen to the double headed locomotives in full cry as they climbed the bank into the mountains (not as good as the steam engines would have sounded but still an impressive thrash -I like trains, it's a hobby all right!). The ride in that 50 year old carriage was exciting to say the least. I know a bit about carriage and wagon maintenance from working on a UK heritage railway, and I would say the side springs on those bogies were utterly knackered.

 

I should imagine everything on the SRT which can turn a wheel is running this weekend!