Historic Korat station should not be demolished - meetings held

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Siam Rath reported that calls have been made to save the old Nakhon Ratchasima railway station.

 

The State Railway of Thailand are preparing to demolish the 123 year old station.

 

But environmentalists and activists want it preserved in some way.

 

 

Meetings are being held to try and save one of Thailand's oldest stations from becoming rubble.

 

High speed trains are coming in and old networks across the kingdom are being upgraded as the SRT attempt to bring Victorian era tech into the modern 21st century world.

 

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[Purdey]

People never remember their history until it disappears. 

[bangon04]

"High speed trains are coming in and old networks across the kingdom are being upgraded as the SRT attempt to bring Victorian era tech into the modern 21st century world."

 

and the Imperial Japanese era tech???

 

Richard Barrow will be sobbing into his breakfast......

[RobU]

Seems like the old 1960's UK thinking. 'If it's old, get rid of it and be modern innit.....' many beautiful buildings were destroyed or mutilated by childlike officials over that period rather than be repurposed and preserved, as tends to happen today.

[steven100]

I suppose their thinking is to move with the times which is fine in some instances,  however we need to preserve some history and architecture so the youth of today will appreciate how buildings have changed over the last 100 years.