Sri Racha-Map Ta Phut double track rail to cost Bt38.5 billion

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Sri Racha-Map Ta Phut double track rail to cost Bt38.5 billion

By THE NATION

 

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The double track rail system linking Sri Racha with Map Ta Phut is expected to cost Bt38.5 billion, according to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).

 

The route, 202 kilometres long, will have 18 stations. It will run through Bangkok, Chachoengsao, Chon Buri and Rayong provinces.

 

It will also be connected with the main transport modes in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and three sea ports, including the Laem Chabang sea port, said the Sri Racha-Map Ta Phut double rail project manager, Somkiat Jang-arun, on Wednesday (November 27). He was speaking at a public hearing on the project arranged by the SRT.

 

The project, which can boost Thailand's logistics capacity, will be able to serve 2.3 million passengers per year in the first year of operation before rising to 5.9 million per year in 2055.

 

The line is expected to carry 83 million tonnes of goods per year in the first year of operation before rising to 250 million tonnes in 2055.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30378827

 

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[mok199]

With 4 trains a day , save your billions for a rainy day...  

Edited November 27, 2019 by mok199

[Cadbury]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)

With the HS train as well it will be trains galore for the EEC!

In the meantime Prayut and Somkid are both wandering the globe with their begging bowls ever hopeful of finding investors for the EEC.

Unfortunately they are up against it given Thailand's relative high labour costs, shortage of skilled labour, high baht and looming recession. 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

rising to 250 million tonnes in 2055.

In 2055.......35 years away, how's that for crystal ball gazing! 

[Geoffggi]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The line is expected to carry 83 million tonnes of goods per year in the first year of operation before rising to 250 million tonnes in 2055.

 

The Chinese will be happy.....LOL

[mrmicbkktxl]

yeah right,they have no plan for next week ,but can plan about 2055

[Thian]

1 minute ago, mrmicbkktxl said:

yeah right,they have no plan for next week ,but can plan about 2055

That's called "having a vision" and the Thai are world famous for that.....

[Assurancetourix]

34 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

The Chinese will be happy.....LOL

And the road carriers a lot less;
We will soon see "snail" operations on the roads and highways leading to Bangkok if the Thai transport unions are as weak as the French ones .

 

This job, trucker, has been mine for almost 40 years;
In France trade union organizations have organized "snail" operations regularly to bend the different governments. .
I have always thought that this type of operation was counterproductive;
indeed, it annoys who?
the average motorist, the one who needs his car to go to work or to work.
It does not hinder the ministers and the senior officials who will move in helicopter ..

My way of making a strike is quite different;
we do not take trucks out of their garages;
knowing that the super markets and other businesses operate at a tense flow, which means that the stocks are in trucks that drive, if these trucks do not roll, there is no inventory and the boss of these super markets can put its staff in technical unemployment.
same with service stations; if no tanker trucks to refuel them, in 2 or 3 days the tanks are empty and the country is really paralyzed without any truck has annoyed a motorist with a stupid snail operation.

Edited November 28, 2019 by Assurancetourix

[DannyCarlton]

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

In France trade union organizations have organized "snail" operations regularly to bend the different governments.

555 That's one occasion when this is definately Thailand, not France. They can't even organise a protest against the military junta taking over the country. Zero chance of them taking action against a rail line being built.

[DrTuner]

Where will this run? I'm scared <deleted>less of them starting to rip up Thanon Rodfai in Pattaya, it'll take decades before you'll be able to cross from darkside to Pattaya proper.

[Assurancetourix]

8 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

555 That's one occasion when this is definately Thailand, not France. They can't even organise a protest against the military junta taking over the country. Zero chance of them taking action against a rail line being built.

Well, that tells us a dark future;
many road transport companies will go bankrupt unless the cost of transport by rail is too high ....
Let's wait to see ...

[DannyCarlton]

7 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

Well, that tells us a dark future;
many road transport companies will go bankrupt unless the cost of transport by rail is too high ....
Let's wait to see ...

The dark future is perpetuated by the Thai people voting to install the military junta into power for the rest of time, not some poxy rail line.

[Forza2002]

19 million baht ($663K) per KM, somebody is going to get seriously rich when awarded that contract.... In western countries the ballpark cost per KM is $1 million but they have much more expensive manpower, machinery, equipment costs... ????

[essox essox]

will never happen.....with the passenger figures JUST how can they quote the expected NUMBERS ???

[Grusa]

Please can we have a map of the proposed route?

The straight line distance from SiRacha to Mabtaphut is about 50km. If the objective as stated in the headline is to join those two places, why would you go through Bangkok and Chachongsao? And how would you then include Chonburi, Pattaya and Utapao.

 

Could it be that the headline is wrong, the route is Bangkok to Rayong via the other places, in logical order? Then, 220 km might be about right.

[essox essox]

19 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

Well, that tells us a dark future;
many road transport companies will go bankrupt unless the cost of transport by rail is too high ....
Let's wait to see ...

question is WILL many of us be here TO SEE this H S R ???

[essox essox]

Just now, Grusa said:

Please can we have a map of the proposed route?

The straight line distance from SiRacha to Mabtaphut is about 50km. If the objective as stated in the headline is to join those two places, why would you go through Bangkok and Chachongsao? And how would you then include Chonburi, Pattaya and Utapao.

 

Could it be that the headline is wrong, the route is Bangkok to Rayong via the other places, in logical order? Then, 220 km might be about right.

months ago that was the proposed route....loads of people in CHACHOENGSAO will want to fly from U T APAO !!!! said sarcastically 

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, Thian said:

That's called "having a vision" and the Thai are world famous for that.....

The hub of.... 

[Darkside Gray]

202 Klms Long?

[DLock]

"The project, which can boost Thailand's logistics capacity, will be able to serve 2.3 million passengers per year in the first year of operation before rising to 5.9 million per year in 2055."

 

Nothing like forward planning...I can only assume that is a typo...but one can never be to sure in Thailand. 

 

Most, if not all of these cronies will be dead in 2055, so that sounds a good date to make outlandish promises.

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, Grusa said:

Please can we have a map of the proposed route?

The straight line distance from SiRacha to Mabtaphut is about 50km. If the objective as stated in the headline is to join those two places, why would you go through Bangkok and Chachongsao? And how would you then include Chonburi, Pattaya and Utapao.

 

Could it be that the headline is wrong, the route is Bangkok to Rayong via the other places, in logical order? Then, 220 km might be about right.

 

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=2007644

[khunjeff]

1 hour ago, Forza2002 said:

19 million baht ($663K) per KM, somebody is going to get seriously rich when awarded that contract.... In western countries the ballpark cost per KM is $1 million but they have much more expensive manpower, machinery, equipment costs... ????

The listed cost is 38.5 billion (with a B) for 220km, which is 175 million baht ($5.8 million) per km.

[johng]

Looks like they will be following the existing line

 

[gamesgplayemail]

why do they call it Sri Racha-Map Ta Phut ?

[DrTuner]

6 hours ago, johng said:

Looks like they will be following the existing line

 

Ah <deleted>. Means Pattaya will be a construction yard for decades. They'll dig it up, then they run out of money for 50y and eventually somebody bothers to put it the way it was. We're doomed.

[johng]

16 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

why do they call it Sri Racha-Map Ta Phut ?

Because it is the section that runs from Sri Racha to Map Ta Phut...  as far as I'm aware at the moment the double tracking  stops at Pattaya and from there south its still just single track..

 

Lucky for me it seems there will be 3 stations nearby my home   Bahn Hauy Kwang, Wat Yarn and Nong Nooch