SRT offers 'Ladie Bogie' trains for female passengers, steps up security

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SRT offers "Ladie Bogie" for female passengers, steps up security

BANGKOK, 17 July 2014 (NNT) - The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) will provide women-only trains "Lady Bogie" on main three routes starting this 1 August.

Chairman of the SRT Committee Omsin Cheewaphruek presided over the committee's meeting on security measures for train passengers in line with policies of Permanent Secretary for Transport Soithip Traisut.

The meeting agreed to step up security at train stations and on board as well as conduct tests for drugs and alcohol on train workers working on board.

The meeting also agreed to provide "Ladie Bogie" on three main routes in the North, South and Northeast. Each route will have one "Lady Bogie" train starting 1 August 2014.

Train passengers include women, girls and boys aged not over 10 years old. Only female train workers will be allowed to provide service on the sleeping carriages.


-- NNT 2014-07-17

[BSJ]

Call it a carriage, a coach, a passenger wagon or a train sleeper...but not a bogie.

This is a bogie!

[zaphod reborn]

Drug and alcohol testing of transport workers is almost universal in the developed West. A good move and should be adopted by the private sector here.

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[asdecas]

Call it a carriage, a coach, a passenger wagon or a train sleeper...but not a bogie.

This is a bogie!

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Quite so, unless they are referring to female Thai nose-pickers.

[jpduggan]

Just wondering, could a Ladyboy be a female bogie?

[jpduggan]

Sorry I meant Lady Bogie above

[ratcatcher]

Call it a carriage, a coach, a passenger wagon or a train sleeper...but not a bogie.

This is a bogie!

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Actually not quite true.

Your picture shows a vintage North American style freight car "truck", now no longer in regular use.

All modern freight and passenger cars are equipped with roller bearing trucks (bogies)

The word bogie, is used by the British Railways for that item.

The Indian Railways use the word "bogie' to refer to an entire passenger "car, coach or carriage'.

This may be where the newspapers get the word.

[Krataiboy]

Presumably by bogie they mean an individual carriage, not an entire train. Otherwise we'll have gangs of rapists holding up lady trains Jesse James style and ravishing all the passengers (well, maybe not the little boys).

Years ago, before Britain's railways were privatised, some rail companies had Ladies Only compartments.

Thinks: wonder whether lady boys will be allowed into the women only carriages? Hopefully not, after what one of them did to a 72-year-old woman the other day.

Maybe the is answer is to providfe special lady boy carriages. Only problem then would be keeping falang pervs out!

[heybuz]

hands up pants down

[doctorproc156]

Call it a carriage, a coach, a passenger wagon or a train sleeper...but not a bogie.

This is a bogie!

CropperCapture26.jpg

It has different meanings in different regions.

[IAMHERE]

I can not wait til the first Farang male reports of being 'fined' for walking thru one of these female only cars. You know it is just a money making scheme in the works more than anything else.

[Alwyn]

A carriage where ladies can pick their noses? Sweet!

[Cuchulainn]

Every time I hear or read the word 'bogie', well, most Brits think of a Corn Flake lodged up a nostril, I have to titter!!

[ginjag]

Would there be any need for young boy coaches, as they are prone to interference/rape etc. it is not only girls/ladies/elderly that are vulnerable.

[ClutchClark]

Double post

[ClutchClark]

Drug and alcohol testing of transport workers is almost universal in the developed West. A good move and should be adopted by the private sector here.

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Not for laundry workers and bedmakers.

Just for those employees responsible for operating the train--i.e. Engineers and conductors. The random testing affects 25%-33% annually. Most traincrew personnel are not directed to take a drug test unless they have been involved in an accident.

[Travel2003]

Wasn't this already implemented in Tokyo (Subway/underground) due to Japanese men's urge to grope anyone standing next to them?

[smutcakes]

What i would like to know is, when was the last time any of the SRT directors and upper management took the train in Thailand if ever?

I would expect probably never short of publicity shots, AC chauffeur driven car is much more the style.

[ParadiseLost]

No fair!

I want to join the ladies as I find 99% of the males in this part of the world disgusting...

[wabothai]

are they going to frisk you when there is a doubt?

I wonder what the guidelines are here as far as ladyboys are concerned.