Chinese railway technology exhibition at Bangkok's Makkasan station

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Chinese railway technology being shown to Thais

BANGKOK, 26 Oct 2013 (NNT) – China is showing off its advanced rail technology as it is organizing a high-speed train exhibition at Makkasan Airport Rail Link Station. The fair will go on until November 25th, 2013.

The exhibition entitled “China's High-Speed Train Technology” is being held for Thais to learn about advancement in railway technology and innovation as well as the cooperation between Thailand and China on the rail system.

Visitors will learn through video presentations in forms of movies and documentaries which provide information and a step-by-step development of rail system in the past until now. The exhibition also features researches on railway and the future of Thailand’s rail service.

A high-speed train simulator is also part of the exhibition as visitors will enjoy a 14.79 kilometer ride from Beijing to Shanghai.

According to the event organizer, China has expressed its willingness to support Thailand’s 2.2 trillion baht infrastructure development plan, but it is up to Thailand how much the country wants China to be a part of its future.

The event will be held until November 25th at Makkasan Airport Rail Link Station.

-- NNT 2013-10-26

[RubbaJohnny]

Support?

Wonderful will it support purchase of French ,Japanes or Pendolino or the trains that crashed in China ?

An exhibition of Thai railways is postponed due to a short fall of staff to repair the main link between the two main cities. The trains kept falling short of their destination,maybe because gauge and equipment is Victorian more frequently seen at theme parks.

While the builders and politicians are ready for the bungs is the safety culture ready for buffaloes in the path of 300km/hour + trains,we continuosly see traffic on/around lines

[soi41]

Dear politicians and ministers>

We don't want a highspeedtrain, that most of the population cannot afford to ride. Not to mention the safety issue!!

We want a dual-track train service throughout Thailand, where the rolling stock is from this century, where derailings are not a daily occurrance and affordable to everyone.

With that in place, hopefully a lot of the heavy trucks will disappear from the roads, causing less accidents and less wear on already poor roads.

Not something fancy, just a working rail-network. To much to ask??

[Thai at Heart]

organizing a high-speed train exhibition at Makkasan Airport Rail Link Station.

Hardly the easiest place to access.

[MaxLee]

With speed with speed with speeeeeeeed the Chinese bullet train is gliding through the wind, and because of its speed, the outer metal skin is slowly falling apart but by bit, and will leave the driver and the passengers free falling naked on the floor...

Made in China,.... if you know what I mean

[worgeordie]

They will need to have stabilizer wheels on to keep them going off the tracks,

and Thai drivers will still believe they can beat them a rail crossings!

regards Worgeordie

[lungbing]

Neither the gauge or equipment could be Victorian, or they'd still be working well! The Victorians were brilliant engineers.

[Loles]

Many thanks for the Chinese Copy Industry for the exhibition. I have seen mine own eyes when the BTS doors are opened when the train is moved with 60-70 Km/h speed.

I'm bagging, I buy only kanom form China. Everything is under quality and shameless copy.

[Briggsy]

The politicians/concrete manufacturers are rubbing their hands at the thought of building a 6-storey high line from Bangkok to Nong Khai. The politicians/road hauliers will get the contracts to move it all into place. It will be the mega-project payout of all time.

[JoeThePoster]

as visitors will enjoy a 14.79 kilometer ride from Beijing to Shanghai

So long, must be a return journey.

[noitom]

In Thailand "railway technology" is an oxymoron.

[Local Drunk]

Support?

Wonderful will it support purchase of French ,Japanes or Pendolino or the trains that crashed in China ?

An exhibition of Thai railways is postponed due to a short fall of staff to repair the main link between the two main cities. The trains kept falling short of their destination,maybe because gauge and equipment is Victorian more frequently seen at theme parks.

While the builders and politicians are ready for the bungs is the safety culture ready for buffaloes in the path of 300km/hour + trains,we continuosly see traffic on/around lines

I was on a train from Bkk to Surin a few years back that did indeed hit a buffalo.

[Local Drunk]

Neither the gauge or equipment could be Victorian, or they'd still be working well! The Victorians were brilliant engineers.

And they did it all with Silde Rulers...

[Estrada]

The Company that runs the airport link wants to be responsible for running Thailand's High-Speed trains on the basis that they currently run a semi-high-speed line with a top speed of 80km/hr. Firstly 80 km/hr is really quite slow. Secondly, the proposed High-Speed Trains will only be running at up to 200km/hr although the lines are capable of carrying trains of up to 250km/hr. I would hardly call these trains high-speed, as high-speed trains these days, are in the region of 400km/hr and above. Better Thailand refers to their proposal as being for normal speed trains, since the speed will be the same as that set in the UK 75 years ago by express steam trains in 1938. Currently, Thailand's SRT trains are not only sub-normal, but where in the world can you gain access to a working railway museum for B5 a ticket?

[Estrada]

Support?

Wonderful will it support purchase of French ,Japanes or Pendolino or the trains that crashed in China ?

An exhibition of Thai railways is postponed due to a short fall of staff to repair the main link between the two main cities. The trains kept falling short of their destination,maybe because gauge and equipment is Victorian more frequently seen at theme parks.

While the builders and politicians are ready for the bungs is the safety culture ready for buffaloes in the path of 300km/hour + trains,we continuosly see traffic on/around lines

I was on a train from Bkk to Surin a few years back that did indeed hit a buffalo.

You may joke, but twenty or more poor Farangs have to pay their girlfriends B50,000 to replace the same buffalo.

[teatree]

On a positive note, at least it gives a chance for the Makkasan 'airport terminal' to have people in it other than cleaners and policemen.

With this and the OTOP exhibition a few weeks ago, Makasan is turning into the worlds dumbest event hall.

[squarethecircle]

I see. So Chinese Thai bosses are going to make a crappy copy of their mainland Chinese brothers' technology, which is in turn a cheap copy of Japanese bullet trains (which are themselves a plagiarized version of ...), but never mind.

Ah yes, I can finally rest assured. China isnt so great at copying but the high quality of what they are attempting to steal will make up for the poor quality of their stolen design. Dont get me wrong, I like most Chinese.

Edited October 27, 2013 by squarethecircle

[dundas]

Credit where credit's due. Apart from being trains in the generic sense of the term and using standard gauge track, Japanese bullet trains are not a plagiarized copy of anything that I know of. For instance, the driving wheels are on all cars EXCEPT the front and end cars. More to the point: they're safe: they have been running since 1964 (nearly 50 years), without a fatality, even as maximum speeds have gone from 200 km/h to 300+ km/h. That says something for the quality of the engineering of the trains, and the infrastructure - and the maintenance. The whole system is a great design - for instance, no level crossings anywhere on the tracks means that the trains don't have to be designed to withstand level crossing crashes and so the trains are not only safe, they are also lightweight and very efficient.

I'm not sure the rest of the world has much extra to learn from Chinese high speed trains, except maybe for the Chinese enthusiasm for building many thousands of kilometers of high speed track (something to be said for socialism, I guess!), and of building infrastructure (eg, whole railway stations) before people are actually living nearby and able to use them (a kind of 'build the field and they will come'). The Chinese certainly don't have a great safety record.

And the whole Chinese "We wanna build you a railroad" thing reminds me of the roads built in Afghanistan before the Russian Invasion. The US build an east-west road which probably didn't do it much good; the Russians built the North-South road, and then drove down that when they invaded (long term, it didn't do the Russians much good, either). I think that with a Chinese built railway line going down through Thailand and other SE Asian countries, there are issues of national sovereignty to be considered, along with all the concerns I've read about on TV relating to any Thai infrastructure project.

[hawksway]

Put an end to this sham democracy, appoint a technocrat Government led by Singapore, make corruption a 20 year sentence without parole and abolish most public holidays.

Then the Country just might be able to afford high speed trains.

[Bagwan]

Will the Dubai resident be allowed back to ensue that the trains run on time?

[bangkokrick]

I travelled on the Chinese high speed railway yesterday for 5 hours. The top speed was 304 kilometers an hour, quiet fast and clean and the price is reasonable too. Did not crash as I live to tell the tale.

But it is Chinese so it is our duty to slag it to death.

Edited October 27, 2013 by bangkokrick

[bigbamboo]

Will the Dubai resident be allowed back to ensue that the trains run on time?

I think most people would be happy if he could just ensure the trains run on rails.

[jbrain]

Many thanks for the Chinese Copy Industry for the exhibition. I have seen mine own eyes when the BTS doors are opened when the train is moved with 60-70 Km/h speed.

I'm bagging, I buy only kanom form China. Everything is under quality and shameless copy.

Don't want to break it for you, but those trains are German made by Siemens

[HannahD]

Neither the gauge or equipment could be Victorian, or they'd still be working well! The Victorians were brilliant engineers.

And they did it all with Silde Rulers...

And now it is done with a sly drool.

[jethro69]

Support?

Wonderful will it support purchase of French ,Japanes or Pendolino or the trains that crashed in China ?

An exhibition of Thai railways is postponed due to a short fall of staff to repair the main link between the two main cities. The trains kept falling short of their destination,maybe because gauge and equipment is Victorian more frequently seen at theme parks.

While the builders and politicians are ready for the bungs is the safety culture ready for buffaloes in the path of 300km/hour + trains,we continuosly see traffic on/around lines

I was on a train from Bkk to Surin a few years back that did indeed hit a buffalo.

You're sure that the buffalo did not hit the train, as buffalos tend to be faster than Thai trains.

[gemini81]

Cool; a junk market/flea market of copied low quality goods from China.