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Home » Background » Construction of new rail connection Bangkok – Korat a fact
The construction of a new rail link between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) will become a fact this year. By deploying Article 44, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha used his absolute power to push through this costly 179 billion baht project.
This Thai – Chino railway project has a length of 252 kilometers and construction will start this year. By issuing a decree, technical, legal and ten applicable laws are circumvented in order to be able to start construction soon.
An agreement has been entered into with a Chinese state-owned company, which is responsible for the construction and supervision. They also deal with the construction of the railway and the electrical systems. Thais are also involved in the realization, they are trained to familiarize them with the new trainsets.
The state railway company (SRT) will have four months to study the agreement and submit it to the cabinet. The meaning of this eludes me.
Thailand has been in talks with China for three years about the construction, but mainly about the financing of this project.
Victory finally begins at Khorat. The seriously outdated narrow-gauge system on diesel traction had to be put aside and it was good to start. I hope that the move to the northeast (Nongkhai and Ubon Ratchathani) will follow soon after.
I have the impression that 1 “leader” decides everything and there can be no question of democracy here.
Are the interests of the people living in the area that will be crossed by the new railway line taken into account? Or are they just going to “just level everything with the bulldozer” for the construction of the new railway line?
I wonder if there will be protest among the local population who will be directly affected.
In itself I don't think the new railway line is a bad idea, although I would rather opt for the improvement of the existing line, because the station buildings there - often beautiful and very well maintained - already exist.
Personally, I think first of the construction of the 2nd track (standard gauge), possibly raised. This then leads to a transitional situation and the trains continue to run. When the new track is finished, the new trains can start running – possibly on a trial basis first. Afterwards, the existing track can be replaced by the second new track and finally the final train service can be carried out.
In this way, I believe, the train service can be maintained and accelerated.
well,
I just wonder if it is possible to run a 1000 mm narrow gauge and a 1340 mm “standard gauge” on one track.
In Bangkok they are building the Redline from the new central station “Bang Sue” to Rangsit.
This route is 4 tracks wide, you can clearly see that the outer tracks are used for the BTS because the stations are built on the outside and the two inner tracks are therefore for the HSL (1340mm wide) and for the existing trains (1000mm wide) must be prepared. is that possible????
Who knows may say…….
Greetings Gerrit
Bravo, 40 years too late, but still.
The current track with its station buildings has no added value whatsoever for the new plans.
The stations will not be able to process the numbers of passengers, so no more porridge and water, but a track of the 21st century, a wonderful project that will also improve safety by 1000%.
As a railwayman, I can't wait to be home in Khorat in 2 hours from the airport, and for Erik it won't be long until the line is extended to Nongkai.
We have already used a new train from Nong Khai to Bangkok this year in February. He did not drive past korat but a little further north towards khon kaen,udon,nong khai. Left on time and got off on time in Ayutthaya. Train went to bkk. We slept 1st class and everything looked new and also briefly looked inside in 2nd class aircon. I think it was also new because it was not the usual brown seats. I don't have the hours when it runs and I think there was also a new train to chiang mai. Maybe do some googling.
Of course you can use narrow gauge and normal gauge interchangeably and you then get a third rail. Just look at Switzerland, it has been around for years, the SBB mainly runs on normal gauge and the BLS on narrow gauge.
Ben
Yes Ben, but in Chur the Rettich railway runs on one side of the Peron on narrow gauge and on the other side the state railways run, those tracks do not cross each other.
If you are going to drive on three rials, the 1340mm wide train will drive neatly in the middle and a 1000mm train will therefore drive “off balance” in other words, the right is less/more space or vice versa than the left and then a gap or gap will be created at the platforms. he rubs against the platform.
In my opinion it is not that simple, so I am curious how they will solve this in Bangkok.
The new line has 8 stations.
Greetings Gerrit