The State Railway of Thailand has added carriages to 184 trains today (Tuesday) in anticipation of an increase in passengers travelling out of Bangkok to celebrate the Songkran festival.

 

The extra capacity trains will operate until April 17th, including 13 additional trains for the northern and north-eastern routes, according to the SRT.

 

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At Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong railway station today, a maximum of 45,000 passengers, are expected catch trains from this old station, where four more trains have been added to the Bangkok-Chiang Mai, Bangkok-Sila-At and the Northeast, Bangkok-Udon Thani and Bangkok-Ubon Ratchathani routes.

 

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The State Railway of Thailand has added carriages to 184 trains today (Tuesday) in anticipation of an increase in passengers travelling out of Bangkok to celebrate the Songkran festival.

All aboard the Covid express.... 

Did they get the old dumped ones procured from Japan on the rails yet?

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

All aboard the Covid express.... 

They really know how to spread it, were any double decker carriages added?

Beer in a restaurant? No <deleted>n way. Overloaded train and bus carriages all over the country? No plob plem

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