South- bound train crash kills five in Phetchaburi

[biplanebluey]

Anybody got any figures on how many derailments there are a year here?

Scares the heck out of me that they want to actually pursue high speed trains!!

As for High Speed trains.

It is better hoped for that common sense prevails in mountainous Thailand (Bangkok going North).

I have been on High Speed trains the Bullet train in Japan and the French High Speed train in France and both run on practically speaking straight tracks in pretty much flat terrain.

None of this is available here in mountainous Thailand track area under consideration.

​If Thailand insist on laying the High Speed track through the mountains it will not be a High Speed train trip. Because in the mountains going round curves and bends upslope and downslope the speed MUST be reduced.

​LOL - LOS.

Sorry but you are not thinking straight---- any low lying areas would have elevated tracks to keep them level,and vice versa any high spots would be leveled to the same height and so run through a small"valley"---easy really I dont think any country has tried to run trains up and down mountains yet Why am I trying to educate an idiot

[stickylies]

another amulet that didn't work properly ...

[kannot]

This might sound a little cold, but the one good thing to come from this incident, is that the truck driver is permanently off the road. What kind of mind races in front of an oncoming train?

Who was his mother? Who taught him the basics about life? Even if there was absolutely no consideration of his own safety, what about all of those people on the train? Was there any presence at all? Where was this guys mind?

A terrible shame, as usual. I see it every day, nothing new about people dodging around the barriers or running the lights on railway crossings, or even the road for that matter. Until such time as people are educated properly in the road rules and law enforcement actually enforces them, it will continue to happen and innocents will continue to die. They also have realise that Buddha is not going to stop a train going through a railway crossing, so wait for it to pass before you cross, if so instructed to do.

Makes you wonder "how much" education you need to know a several hundred ton train will kill you, is it the same amount you need to know to "look" when pulling out of any junction for motorbikes........................I really think its beyond them.

[donsonny]

Trains, minibus and busses in daily accidents. I wonder what is the safest way if you are going around in Thailand? Maybe just stay home and indoor. All these accident makes you a little worried. They talk and talk but not a damn thing is done to improve safety.

[crusty]

Anybody got any figures on how many derailments there are a year here?

Scares the heck out of me that they want to actually pursue high speed trains!!

As for High Speed trains.

It is better hoped for that common sense prevails in mountainous Thailand (Bangkok going North).

I have been on High Speed trains the Bullet train in Japan and the French High Speed train in France and both run on practically speaking straight tracks in pretty much flat terrain.

None of this is available here in mountainous Thailand track area under consideration.

​If Thailand insist on laying the High Speed track through the mountains it will not be a High Speed train trip. Because in the mountains going round curves and bends upslope and downslope the speed MUST be reduced.

​LOL - LOS.

Not unless you do as the Japanese do and go THROUGH the mountain, even in the most mountainous areas.