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At first I thought they where cleaning up the tracks. Later I discovered they are actually waiting and playing with the water to try to overcome the boredom. Waiting to manually fill up the trains' water reserves. Like old buses in Thailand i think the engine needs extra water to cool down due to the leaking if the old engine. However I have seen them watering carriages mainly so I guess this water will be used for train toilets and sinks as well.

Thanks for the input Bookman.thumbsup.gif

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I found the trains in Thailand a pretty good option, with the exception of the 3rd-class only 40 baht special on a public holiday weekend. I'd have been home hours earlier, but for a little confusion on my part between Thonburi and Chonburi. If they'd said Bangkok Noi, I'd have known what they meant...

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Thanks, streetcowboy, great pics. Hua Hin station appears very small. Did you end up in Thonburi when you shoul have been in chonburi?

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I found the trains in Thailand a pretty good option, with the exception of the 3rd-class only 40 baht special on a public holiday weekend. I'd have been home hours earlier, but for a little confusion on my part between Thonburi and Chonburi. If they'd said Bangkok Noi, I'd have known what they meant...

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Thanks, streetcowboy, great pics. Hua Hin station appears very small. Did you end up in Thonburi when you shoul have been in chonburi?

I think that's just the station temple. the main building is behind me, but it's not so photogenic.

I couldn't get a seat back to Bangkok, and let a couple of trains to Thonburi go, thinking it was Chonburi. In the end, after waiting about four or five hours, got on the late-running 40 baht 3rd class only train, which was further delayed at every passing loop to let the trains out of Bangkok pass; and finally bailed out at Bang Sui to get the MRT back to Sukhumvit, and subsequently a taxi home.

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Hua Hin bound train at Hua Lamphong station

I love those decayed engine trains still in use. Beautiful.

I'd like to get a decent photo of the re-engineered BR Class 158s. I don't know where they run though. Perhaps someone here can help out.

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I'd like to get a decent photo of the re-engineered BR Class 158s. I don't know where they run though. Perhaps someone here can help out.

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Would be interesting to see if it ran i SE-Asia, or Thailand, even.

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I'd like to get a decent photo of the re-engineered BR Class 158s. I don't know where they run though. Perhaps someone here can help out.

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Would be interesting to see if it ran i SE-Asia, or Thailand, even.

I have a former colleague who worked on their commissioning at Makkasan. I have one poor photo, from another web site, but it does not show the vehicle in its full glory. For me, the 158s were a breath of fresh air when they arrived on the Transpennine route. I suspect they may have been more new than improved, and they have since been supplanted on the Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh route

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I have a former colleague who worked on their commissioning at Makkasan. I have one poor photo, from another web site, but it does not show the vehicle in its full glory. For me, the 158s were a breath of fresh air when they arrived on the Transpennine route. I suspect they may have been more new than improved, and they have since been supplanted on the Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh route

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So, then, an original self made photo would be too much to ask here, perhaps... whistling.gif

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I have a former colleague who worked on their commissioning at Makkasan. I have one poor photo, from another web site, but it does not show the vehicle in its full glory. For me, the 158s were a breath of fresh air when they arrived on the Transpennine route. I suspect they may have been more new than improved, and they have since been supplanted on the Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh route

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So, then, an original self made photo would be too much to ask here, perhaps... whistling.gif

I can maybe trawl back and find one on the Queen Street Waverley run, but we need to remember that the Thai vehicles had metre - gauge bogies and enhanced air conditioning....

I know I've never seen them in Thailand - I don't even know which line they run

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Oh!!! Kan Win is a poet and we did not know it thumbsup.gif

OK we have no railway on Samui, so hard to do!!! tongue.png .... but the last couple of days I have been taking photos of photos ... glad I printed before losing images!

So here's my contribution (technically the photo taken in Thailand.... wink.png even though the original was not whistling.gif )

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OK we have no railway on Samui, so hard to do!!! tongue.png .... but the last couple of days I have been taking photos of photos ... glad I printed before losing images!

So here's my contribution (technically the photo taken in Thailand.... wink.png even though the original was not whistling.gif )

It's okay, thanks for having a go.thumbsup.gif Who are they, jimmy?

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Phitsanulok or Phit-lok trainstation, the whistle-guy and if you where wondering the guy in sunglasses in the back is putting something on his nose, like Jimmy's clown.

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Which way-to-go...

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