Gold Line monorail set to roll out in October after successful test run

By THE NATION

 

 

The Gold Line monorail had a successful test run on Friday (September 11), Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said, adding this service will be opened in October.

 

 

Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) said the monorail will be free of charge for passengers in the initial period.

 

The monorail will stop at three stations – Krung Thonburi, Charoen Nakhon and Klong San – before linking up with the BTS Green Line.

 

The train will consist of two bogies, and the total passengers it can carry at one time is around 276, or 4,000 to 12,000 per hour. The trains will have a frequency of one every 6 to 12 minutes, covering 1.7 kilometres of distance.

 

Prominent places along the Gold Line route included Icon Siam, Lhong 1919, Taksin Hospital, and Somdet Chaopraya Hospital.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30394429

 

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2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

 

Prominent places along the Gold Line route included Icon Siam,

and now we know why it was built.

 

a map would be nice.

Edited September 12, 20205 yr by NCC1701A

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

 

The Gold Line monorail had a successful test run on Friday (September 11), Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said, adding this service will be opened in October.

 

 

Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) said the monorail will be free of charge for passengers in the initial period.

 

The monorail will stop at three stations – Krung Thonburi, Charoen Nakhon and Klong San – before linking up with the BTS Green Line.

For the love of all that is holy, it is not a monorail! Why can't they get this simplest fact correct in any of the articles?

 

43 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

and now we know why it was built.

 

a map would be nice.

There was never any doubt as to why it was built - it was proposed and paid for by the good folks at Icon. The city just decided to tie it into the regular transit system.

 

This is a fairly reasonable map - all the other ones I see online are deceiving because they include stations and rail lines which don't yet exist, and may never be built:

 

 

I haven't been following this project as I have been watching the 1 meter twin rail work around Muak Lek. As an old railway enthusiast please enlighten me as to why the Thai 'experts' think that it's a Monorail?

276 passengers every 12 minutes at a charge of 15 baht to replace a bus that is free, runs every 30 minutes and usually has less than 10 passengers.  Three years of lanes closed and very bad traffic.  nobody can justify the disruption this Golden line has caused.

1 hour ago, Toany said:

276 passengers every 12 minutes at a charge of 15 baht to replace a bus that is free, runs every 30 minutes and usually has less than 10 passengers.  Three years of lanes closed and very bad traffic.  nobody can justify the disruption this Golden line has caused.

Traffic is miserable all over Bangkok and not related to golden line construction, so on could surmise the traffic was going to be miserable in the area whether they built it or not.

3 hours ago, peterpaintpot said:

I haven't been following this project as I have been watching the 1 meter twin rail work around Muak Lek. As an old railway enthusiast please enlighten me as to why the Thai 'experts' think that it's a Monorail?

No experts think it's a monorail - everyone who's actually involved or interested in transportation correctly refers to it as an APM. Lazy journalists keep calling it a monorail, either because they see the central guide rail in the middle of the track and think that makes it a monorail, or because they see press releases and articles stating that Bombardier is supplying Innovia trainsets for the Gold, Pink, and Yellow lines, and assume incorrectly that they're all using the same technology. 

22 hours ago, khunjeff said:

For the love of all that is holy, it is not a monorail! Why can't they get this simplest fact correct in any of the articles?

 

It was originally planned, by Bombardier to be a monorail. Obviously the plan changed, but the name stuck!

 

https://rail.bombardier.com/content/dam/transportation/products/mass-transit-signalling/Case-study-INNOVIA-Monorail-CITYFLO-650-Bangkok-Thailand-Bombardier-Transportation-en.pdf

2 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

It was originally planned, by Bombardier to be a monorail. Obviously the plan changed, but the name stuck!

 

https://rail.bombardier.com/content/dam/transportation/products/mass-transit-signalling/Case-study-INNOVIA-Monorail-CITYFLO-650-Bangkok-Thailand-Bombardier-Transportation-en.pdf

That release is only about the Pink and Yellow lines, which are indeed being built as monorails. As far as I know (though I could of course be mistaken...), the Gold Line was always planned as an APM, which makes sense given the very short distance and the fact that it's really more of a shuttle than a real transit line.

 

Admittedly, Bombardier helps confuse the issue by giving almost identical designations to the two types of rolling stock: "Innovia APM 300" for the Gold Line, and "Innovia Monorail 300" for the Pink and Gold lines.

14 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

That release is only about the Pink and Yellow lines, which are indeed being built as monorails. As far as I know (though I could of course be mistaken...), the Gold Line was always planned as an APM, which makes sense given the very short distance and the fact that it's really more of a shuttle than a real transit line.

 

Admittedly, Bombardier helps confuse the issue by giving almost identical designations to the two types of rolling stock: "Innovia APM 300" for the Gold Line, and "Innovia Monorail 300" for the Pink and Gold lines.

Ah, so there are monorails being built by Bombardier in Bangkok. That probably explains the confusion in terms Thanks for that.

On 9/12/2020 at 11:29 PM, Toany said:

276 passengers every 12 minutes at a charge of 15 baht to replace a bus that is free, runs every 30 minutes and usually has less than 10 passengers.  Three years of lanes closed and very bad traffic.  nobody can justify the disruption this Golden line has caused.

Build it and they will come

On 9/13/2020 at 7:09 AM, 86Tiger said:

Traffic is miserable all over Bangkok and not related to golden line construction, so on could surmise the traffic was going to be miserable in the area whether they built it or not.

you obviously don't live near the construction