14 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

I have travelled extensively on SRT and always enjoy the thrill and excitement of riding 3rd class, sitting on the steps of the open doorways, always handy as I was a smoker back then, standing at the back of the train with just a piece of chain between you and the track , and of course the squat toilet  I can't use one in normal circumstances let alone on a moving train  Unfortunately I seem to have mislaid some of my old photo files, they maybe on an old machine, I will investigate.

 

I have also been fortunate enough to travel at the other end of the spectrum, the Eastern and Oriental Express from Singapore to Bangkok, I hope you will enjoy this set of pics from earlier this year.

 

Leaving Woodlands, Singapore.

Over the causeway into Malaysia.O

Our cabin.

Afternoon Tea.

A very expensive bottle of Aussie wine, very nice, but $55 !!

The Library. You can also get a foot massage here.

One of the restaurant cars.

The other one :)

Only enough room for one person, impossible to pass.

The Piano bar.

A G n T for me, a Mocktail for the Mrs.

Compact & Bijou en suite bathroom/shower

The train is about 1/2 a kilometre long.

The observation car bar.

The adorable hostesses, their costumes change along the way, Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai.

Afternoon Tea.

From the observation car.

We stopped at Hua Hin for a while, all of a sudden hoardes of Chinese tourist thought that they could come aboard, the staff quickly kicked them off.

The New Main station being built in Bangkok.

Thank you for sharing Golden Triangle, nice shots.

thanks for the photos.

During a trip from Ayutthaya to Bangkok I met this chap, he only latched onto me because I was sitting on the steps having a smoke - roll ups, he cadged a few from me along the way, I don't think he had a ticket because as the train slowed on the approach to BKK he hopped off. 

 

The rest are just general views of a toilet  And life along the trackside.

 

I hope you enjoy them.

Phitsanulok Station, we had the local tour bus to ourselves ie I paid for it to go  I wasn't gonna hang around for another 20 passengers, so only got these 3 shots as we made our merry way around town LOL 

 

My knees aren't what they used to be unfortunately, so I cannot do extended periods of walking, which is a shame as I miss so much 

Model taken through through the office window of Tha Sak station.

 

 

This one was taken and post edited from another image taken from the same spot.

Bangsue Station - Today vs Future

The new sleeping cars ; lign Bangkok - Nong Khai ( photos shot august 18 year 2017 )

nice and beautiful..but for how long ?

Ah! Never buy the upper bed, the light is never  shut during the night and if you are as tall as I am or taller ( 193 cm or more ) difficult to have a good sleep;

the beds are 180/185 cm long

 

The very end of the Andaman rail route, Kantang.

Outside Lopburi railway station Made at Glasgow's Hyde Park works in 1903, started work in Thailand  1913, retired in 1967. 

Hin Son village railway station, in Ampure Gang Koy, Saraburi province. 

Bang Sue Station Construction