Train Derails In Nakhon Si Thammarat

Train services for southern routes temporarily suspended

BANGKOK: -- The State Authority of Thailand (SRT) has temporarily suspended all train services between Bangkok and the country's southern provinces, and vice versa, due to a train derailment in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province last night.

The train services for the country's southern routes were forced to temporarily suspended after a seven-bogie cargo train derailed in the province's Cha-od District last night, said the SRT in a statement published this morning.

Two SRT staff on board the derailed train were injured, but there were no people died, according to local journalists.

SRT's officials were salvaging the derailed train, which blocked communications of all other trains scheduled to run from Bangkok to the country's southern region and vice versa.

A number of passengers who were stranded at train stations in the southern region had been offered alternative bus services, said the journalists.

It is expected that the country's train services for the southern routes will be resumed by 08:00 p.m. today, according to the SRT's statement.

The SRT is also conducting an official investigation on the cause of the train derailment.

--TNA 2004-11-29