Thailand to build own trains, expand rail network to 7,500 km

[josephbloggs]

10 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Just being realistic.

 

My advice to you would be to stick to ad hominems and confused emoticons and leave more challenging topics to the better informed. 

My advice to you, stop getting triggered by emoticons - I assume you are a grown man.

I also suggest not looking for the negative in everything here, maybe you'll even get a smiley emoji which you can tell your mum about.

[Lazybones]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

According to the Bangkok Post a year ago the SRT cumulative debt was 230 Billion baht which has yet to be repaid. It seems as though the SRT wants to increase the network by 75%, buy new railway rolling stock. engines, carriages, probably new freight rolling stock, all made in Thailand.

 

All this is a great idea and a wonderful plan.

 

The big question is where will the money come from, firstly to pay off the existing debt, secondly and thirdly to pay for all the new staff that will be be required to run the new network.

Just wondering if an extention from Chibadan to Phetchabun is in the offering before my demise?

[billd766]

4 hours ago, Lazybones said:

Just wondering if an extention from Chibadan to Phetchabun is in the offering before my demise?

Currently the nearest railway station to me in rural Kamphaeng Phet, is at Nakhon Sawan 140km away. That means getting 6km to the big village (No public transport), catch the  bus, change buses at Lat Yao 70 km away from the big village to get to Nakhon Sawan bus station. Catch another bus to the railway station about 10km out of town. The next nearest station is at Phitsanulok about 180 km away.

 

I am 80, and that wont happen in my lifetime. My wife is 59 and it probably won't happen in her lifetime either.

[spidermike007]

Thailand has one of the most backward, and least technological railway systems in Asia. They should be ashamed. Just let the Chinese build high speed rail all over the country, then default on the loans, like the rest of the belt and road initiative nations are doing. It's a win for Thailand. 

 

 

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Just let the Chinese build high speed rail all over the country, then default on the loans, like the rest of the belt and road initiative nations are doing. It's a win for Thailand.

太好了！👍

[Callmeishmael]

"Thailand to upgrade the railway system"  - This should have been a headline in 1960!  They are doing this decades too late.

[Emdog]

Thailand: the hub of reinventing the wheel!

[Mr Meeseeks]

On 10/27/2024 at 6:01 AM, Callmeishmael said:

"Thailand to upgrade the railway system"  - This should have been a headline in 1960!  They are doing this decades too late.

The last upgrade to the railways that the Japanese tried in the 1940’s didn’t turn out too well. 
 

They needed foreign engineers then as they would now. 
 

It did however expose the Thais as the distrustful quislings that their neighbours already knew them to be, when they assisted their Japanese masters in the POW slave trade.

 

Not all of them of course, a minority in the Seri Thai fought back.

[black tabby12345]

On 10/25/2024 at 11:10 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

Thais building their own trains 🤣

 

Maybe in 20+ years, but likely never.

 

Could well end up another case of Saying, but not Doing.

[black tabby12345]

How can they  build another  2655Km of railway?

While their State Rail has already  been struggling to maintain their existing line of 4845Km for ages.

Sounds so unreal.