Meeting held on high speed train line that will transform travel to and from Pattaya

[webfact]

Meeting held on high speed train line that will transform travel to and from Pattaya

 

Picture: PR Pattaya

 

PR Pattaya reported that a meeting was held on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in the so-called "Three Airport Link" high speed train service planned to join Bangkok and Pattaya. 

 

The service is still in the consultative stage with decisions about the exact locations of stations and supporting piers in the Pattaya area. 

 

The basics have been reported long since - the journey from the capital to Pattaya will be just 60 minutes.

 

The train could reach speeds of 250 kmph. 

 

Picture: PR Pattaya

 

There will be nine stations: Don Muang, Bang Sue, Makkasan, Suvarnabhumi, Chachoengsao, Chonburi, Si Racha, Pattaya and U-Tapao airport.

 

Thai Rath also reported on developments for local electric tram projects to meet the train in Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong. 

 

Picture: PR Pattaya

 

A tram is also planned for Pattaya as part of Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) developments, a major project of the government. 

 

Source: PR Pattaya

 

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[keith101]

They will more than likely still be talking about in 2-3 years time as with all things Thai no hurry we will do it eventually .

[Pottinger]

250km per hour on a train in Thailand? My speed limit in this country is 45km/hr - anything more and I start looking an open window.

[Brunolem]

Once the train line open, 30 years from now, visitors will rush to visit Pattaya Ghost Town. 

 

There, a few local actors wearing fake mustaches will play the role of dirty horny farangs handing out wads of cash to young and innocent girls, hiding in what used to be known as "soi 6".

 

Among the visitors, bent on his two canes, the now 100 year old TVF member known as NCCxxxx will remember the good old days, before returning to his Hua Hin hospice room

[hotandsticky]

2 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

Once the train line open, 30 years from now, visitors will rush to visit Pattaya Ghost Town. 

 

There, a few local actors wearing fake mustaches will play the role of dirty horny farangs handing out wads of cash to young and innocent girls, hiding in what used to be known as "soi 6".

 

Among the visitors, bent on his two canes, the now 100 year old TVF member known as NCCxxxx will remember the good old days, before returning to his Hua Hin hospice room

 

 

If you would be so kind as to point me to those young and innocent girls I would appreciate it.

 

 

 

"Young and innocent" does not match with what I have seen.....

[Brunolem]

3 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

If you would be so kind as to point me to those young and innocent girls I would appreciate it.

 

 

 

"Young and innocent" does not match with what I have seen.....

In showbiz reenactments, things are usually a little embellished... 

[bodga]

Meeting held on High speed  train line, well that doesnt  sound very safe  does it

[redwood1]

They cant make up their minds......Is Pattaya going to have a tram or a monorail?

 

Pattaya monorail debut set for 2026

https://www.pattayamail.com/featured/pattaya-monorail-debut-set-for-2026-307933

 

My vote is on neither....

[bkk6060]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The basics have been reported long since - the journey from the capital to Pattaya will be just 60 minutes.

Not much of an advantage a fast driver can easily do it in less then 90 minutes.

[Destiny1990]

Kinda disappointed the fareprice wasn’t included.

[AlexJohanson]

Here is a group of guys pretending to work in order to justify their salaries. In this day and age a bullet train is the last thing Thailand needs.

[mrfill]

Isn't the bit between Swampy and Phaya Thai already there and known as the AIrport link?

[from the home of CC]

you do know foreigners will be charged double lol..

[Rookiescot]

A Thai train doing 250 km/h hitting a water buffalo standing on the tracks.

This is something I would pay to watch.

From a safe distance.

[petermik]

3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Not much of an advantage a fast driver can easily do it in less then 90 minutes.

Somchai in his loaded van can do it in a lot less than that...????

 

[sanuk711]

5 hours ago, keith101 said:

They will more than likely still be talking about in 2-3 years time as with all things Thai no hurry we will do it eventually .

If it took another five years it would still beat the London to Birmingham Joke,  that different governments  have been talking about since.............????

[Chivas]

Ah the old train line ramblings. Been going on since 1991

Expect an imminent start in 2037

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, AlexJohanson said:

Here is a group of guys pretending to work in order to justify their salaries. In this day and age a bullet train is the last thing Thailand needs.

I could understand a bullet train from north to south or even east to east but Bangkok to Pattaya?

[newnative]

     It's not going to 'transform travel' if all they do is talk talk talk.  

[fred110]

32 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Isn't the bit between Swampy and Phaya Thai already there and known as the AIrport link?

That's to Bangkok not Pattaya 

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, Pottinger said:

250km per hour on a train in Thailand?

imagine that hitting a pick up on a train crossing

[RocketDog]

I shudder when I think of yet another high speed vehicle in the Kingdom. 

[Anythingleft?]

Depends on the links available from the exit in Pattaya to make it any use at all, relying on the taxi mafia in Pattaya from the terminal will make the use a taxi direct from Suvarnabhumi even more desirable

 

At least you can get a fairly standard rate there or pre-book a service

 

Just dont see the link being a huge benefit with the already improved roads and the additional hassle of getting to and from the terminal at Pattaya end. Day trippers possibly but not people hauling luggage around......

[spiekerjozef]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The train could reach speeds of 250 kmph.

That's a big crash waiting to happen.

The Thai maintenance is what worries me.

Edited July 20, 2020 by spiekerjozef

[Dumbastheycome]

Be  generous a little  bit !

Thailand is not the only  place where in defiance of the unknown and/or  optimistic conviction that in the "aftermath" of C19 all will be back to  business as  usual.

Perhaps shades optimism will hold things together long enough  for rationale to surface alongside some stark realities?

In the  meantime those whose  occupation has not been  destroyed  will bravely  pursue the function of it.

Hypothetical purpose  for hypothetical demand is no barrier  to hypothetical discussion.

If it were  not so the thread about "Do you believe in God" would have  died at  page  1 !????

 

[balo]

Maybe they should wait with the plans until tourism are back in Thailand, that could take a while. 
Or maybe they want to add a ghost train to the ghost city.  

[Isaan sailor]

Nope.

[greeneking]

'nine stations: Don Muang, Bang Sue, Makkasan, Suvarnabhumi, Chachoengsao, Chonburi, Si Racha, Pattaya and U-Tapao airport.

... local electric tram projects to meet the train in Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong.'

 

Am I missing something?  No mention of a 10th station at Rayong any more?  But a tram to run the 40km distance from U-Tapao/Rayong to Rayong proper? Really?

In 2017 the plan was for the line to be open in 2023.

[Susco]

34 minutes ago, balo said:

Maybe they should wait with the plans until tourism are back in Thailand, that could take a while. 
Or maybe they want to add a ghost train to the ghost city.  

While it will certainly take a few years before tourism has recovered, I doubt the railway will be completed by the end of this year

[Venom]

Covid has been a boom for the State. ????