Thailand's Longest Train Tunnel Temporarily Closed for Cleaning - video

[snoop1130]

 

 

Thailand's State Railway (SRT) had to shut down the country's longest train tunnel shortly after its launch on Sunday, due to a dust issue. This was in response to passengers' complaints about excessive dust within the tunnel, leading to a scheduled 14-day cleaning operation.

 

The Chief of SRT's governor's office, Ekarat Sri-arayanpong, stated the issue was identified when passengers traveling northeast raised complaints about the heavy dust as the train traveled through the Pha Sadet tunnel in Saraburi province. Based on these complaints, SRT instructed the contractors responsible to clean the tunnel within two weeks.

 

The tunnel, which stretches 5.4 kilometers, is part of SRT's new double-track railway towards the Northeast, and was inaugurated on Sunday. SRT anticipates the tunnel will be ready for use again by August 12th.

 

 

Sri-arayanpong explained that the dust was originally cleared from the tunnel before the launch, but later winds blew dust back into the interior.

 

In the meantime, northeastern trains have reverted to using their previous route from Map Krabao station through Pha Sadet and Hin Lap stations to Muak Lek station. This old route covers 18 kilometres and typically takes a train 32 minutes to traverse. In comparison, the new route through the tunnel between Map Krabao and Muak Lek is only 14km long and takes approximately 15 minutes.

 

-- 2024-07-29

 

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[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand's State Railway (SRT) had to shut down the country's longest train tunnel shortly after its launch on Sunday, due to a dust issue. This was in response to passengers' complaints about excessive dust within the tunnel, leading to a scheduled 14-day cleaning operation

Goes for the whole country...

[Georgealbert]

Video from the rear of the train going through the tunnel, clearly shows the amount of dust being thrown up.

 

 

[BE88]

They forgot that when a construction site is finished, it needs to be cleaned up.

[Lorry]

59 minutes ago, BE88 said:

They forgot that when a construction site is finished, it needs to be cleaned up.

Cleaning is not part of Chinese culture. 

It's considered a waste of time, you can make good money in this time. 

(BTW very different from Thai culture)

 

[john donson]

they should have added this in the apple ad.. or the outrage over the ad...

[khunjeff]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Sri-arayanpong explained that the dust was originally cleared from the tunnel before the launch, but later winds blew dust back into the interior.

 

Even by Thai standards, this has to be one of the most ridiculous excuses I've ever heard. "Winds blew dust" into the middle of a tunnel that's 5km long? And if somehow that utterly implausible scenario were true, won't the same thing keep happening again after every cleaning? 🙄

[Georgealbert]

Here are a few pictures from inside the tunnels, before the trains were allowed through.

 

[cowellandrew]

To contractors 

Easy solution 

break out the covid masks!

Close the windows on the train!

😁😁

[RayWright]

Can't really tell from the long video in terms of side extraction, but the 14 pairs of jet fans along the length of the 5.4km tunnel seem inadequate, plus they look more like fire dispersal jet fans than ventilation fans, so not in regular action moving longitudinally the air and dust or train exhaust gases.

Me thinks the fact that non sealed trains are used on that line has been overlooked!

Clearing the dust will require a team of "Fluffers", as they do nightly across the Underground in London.