Thailand Bars Alcohol Sales on Trains and at Hua Lamphong

[craighj]

3 hours ago, Cuchulainn said:

........policy reflecting the country's commitment to public safety and health........

 

 

3 words:

Rama 2 Road.

Any road in the whole of Thailand.  Stupid people, if they were concerned about public safety they might actually try deal with REAL safety issues!

[sabaijai]

2 hours ago, 2long said:

It was the drugs he was on, not the booze.

But now everyone who wants to enjoy being a PASSENGER with a few beers is affected. I wonder how many Somchais choose to drive, instead of take the train, because they can drink... yes, I meant that.

 

And the rapist/murderer was an SRT employee, not a passenger. He had been drinking heavily - this is the first I've heard that drugs were involved - but he wasn't consuming alcohol sold on the train but rather his own. 

[Guderian]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Back in 2014, the tragic rape and murder of a young girl by an inebriated man on a train triggered a nationwide prohibition on alcohol sales in train settings—a measure aimed at preventing similar incidents.

 

Yeah, but an incident similar to this could also have happened anywhere a dumb lowlife drunk happened to be near a young girl - a village, a condo, a corner of a beach, or a quiet street. By this logic, to avoid similar tragedies Thailand should ban all alcohol sales everywhere.

[harryviking]

4 hours ago, Cuchulainn said:

........policy reflecting the country's commitment to public safety and health........

 

 

3 words:

Rama 2 Road.

Yeah! What a joke!!!😆

[LOS1]

This is just STUPID!! ... TIT

[Yagoda]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Oh wait I dont drink NVM

[black tabby12345]

5 hours ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Wise decision by the Thai ACC.

 

Foreign tourists are already whacked out of their skull on the devil's lettuce. That was the gov'ts first miscalculation, to legalise weeed.

 

No need to mix booze with the other drugs in public spaces like trains.

 

Mostly agree.

Visa waivers now from 93 nations.

Including from alcohol-free 3rd world Muslim nations.

While they are here, they often drink heavily.

Since they don't seem to have much of the immunity to liquor(due to their background; unable to drink back home).

I presume they can easily go out of control while drunk and it can  trigger dangerous/aggressive behavior.

So it is wise to implement precaution in advance.

 

Even Thai bureaucrats sometimes make a smart decision.

[Purdey]

Phuket, Bangkok and Pattaya show the headaches caused by drunks. Their country, let them decide.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Trains world wide serve alcohol where alcohol is legally available in those countries. I might be wrong but this would make Thailand unique in this regard.

 

Thailand in many respects is unique... lack of personal responsibility

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, HK MacPhooey said:

Better than having to sit next to a boring sanctimonious 'holier than thou' farang

 

Nah... you could tell them to shut up..

trying doing that to a tanked-up Thai

[PattayaParent]

I went to the 7-11 opposite HLP station and bought beer and whiskey for my journey down to Penang.

[StayinThailand2much]

Good for Thailand, finally catching up with Prohibition a hundred years after the U.S. introduced it... 😆 

[Sydebolle]

"rejected the State Railway of Thailand’s (SRT) appeal to permit alcohol SALES on trains" so it is nothing but the BYO again for all those millions of us who travel by train ............ 

[The Old Bull]

No problem a few bottles of overpriced Chang or Sing, I doubt if they would sell much. Lots of Lao Khao getting licked up in third class but they wouldn't sell that anyway.

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Just get a widow seat on the platform side of the carriage. Each stop, hang out of the window and make the 'tipping bottle to mouth' signal and the vendors will come a'runnin.

 

In recent post covid times, I travelled by train from Don Meaung Old Station to Chiang Mai. The only seat available was in a Third Class train with no refreshment/buffet car. However, throughout the journey, food and drinks (including beer) were available. Various vendors boarded the train selling to customers at their seats. Chilled cans of Beer Chang dispensed from cool boxes were enjoyed by me throughout my journey. No alcohol prohibition law on that particular train!

 

 

[Caldera]

That's a real shame. Having an ice cold beer on a night train before getting a good night's sleep used to be fun in the good old days.

[riverhigh]

The last time I was on a train in Thailand I was stuck in 3rd class because of my lack of planning. If memory serves me right, it was overcrowded and uncomfortable. Can't imaginne how worse it would have been if stuck in a cramped train full of out-of-control narcissistic, self-centered drunks. 

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

Another shot in the foot...

[dinsdale]

6 hours ago, Purdey said:

Phuket, Bangkok and Pattaya show the headaches caused by drunks. Their country, let them decide.

Exactly. Punish the majority for the actions of the minority. Great attitude.

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, riverhigh said:

The last time I was on a train in Thailand I was stuck in 3rd class because of my lack of planning. If memory serves me right, it was overcrowded and uncomfortable. Can't imaginne how worse it would have been if stuck in a cramped train full of out-of-control narcissistic, self-centered drunks. 

Sadly narcissistic self centered idiots are on the raise. No doubt about it. Having a carriage on a train where you can sit and have a beer and some food should still be allowed. 

[bannork]

It was great in the old days, sitting back in the buffet car, watching the countryside go by whilst drinking a beer or two. But it's no fun trying to sleep in an air-con carriage with noisy drunks around you.

Solution- drinkers have their own carriage.

[kwilco]

12 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

Nanny train state.

 

regards,

bob.

most alcoholics need a nnny- they just don't realise it.

[CK1980]

11 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Just get a widow seat on the platform side of the carriage. Each stop, hang out of the window and make the 'tipping bottle to mouth' signal and the vendors will come a'runnin.

Careful with that hand signal 😂

 

Easy to attract the wrong kind of vendor 

[CK1980]

11 hours ago, sandyf said:

Scotrail do not allow alcohol on their trains.

oh the irony...  😅 

[dinsdale]

12 hours ago, sandyf said:

Scotrail do not allow alcohol on their trains.

Are you talking about suburban trains here? I'm pretty sure no suburban trains anywhere allow alcohol or have a buffet carriage.

[proton]

Hardly seems fair as you have to get half pissed to survive some train journeys here. Last time the 'express' took 13 hours from Ubon to Bkk, window was stuck open, doors tied back and a bit of string over the gapping door way at the back of the last coach we were in, where you could see the track below creeping by. Never again it stopped at almost every station for the water sellers and chicken on a stick vendors to get on. Sleepers are the only tolerable chuff chuffs.