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Home » News from Thailand » Thai Railways wants to purchase 100 new diesel-electric locomotives
The Thai Railways (SRT) has planned to buy 100 new diesel-electric locomotives for 19,5 billion baht. The board of directors of the SRT will make a decision on this in September, after which the Ministry of Transport and the cabinet still have to give their approval.
At the moment the SRT has 140 locomotives, half of which are not fully operational. The new locomotives should replace the old ones, said deputy director Thanongsak.
The purchase also has to do with the desired growth of the locomotives, when the planned double-track lines are taken into use in Thailand.
The SRT has also proposed to the Ministry to purchase 186 air-conditioned diesel trams. It comes with a price tag of 13 billion baht. They are used on 300 to 400 km of routes.
Source: Bangkok Post – Photo: Archive
double track lines on the same track width as is currently the case (narrow gauge)?? This limits the maximum allowed speed, and what about the construction of the HST line(s)??
If the rail network continues to expand on the current track width, this will not bring much improvement in travel times.
I think the money will be gone by now, with the Thai government.
And the SRT is already deeply in debt.
And that HST line, as far as I can estimate, will not be a high-speed train, but an ordinary diesel train.
This despite the beautiful pictures.
Just a little faster than the current antique equipment.
The SRT is extremely rich. It owns large tracts of land adjacent to existing major roads and close to older and newer BTS stations. They were probably not worth that much 30 years ago, but now billions of baht.
I know they own land, though I don't know how much.
I don't know if it can be sold though.
Perhaps it could be commercially exploited better.
There are many illegally built houses of mainly poor people on that land.
They could also charge rent for that.
The question then is whether the government is in favor of this.
But when it comes to cash, they have huge debts. (100 billion Baht according to a website)
That doesn't surprise me that much, by the way, when I look at the price of the train tickets.
The night train is often free for Thai people.
You can't run an organization like that.
The quality of the rolling stock does correspond to the price of the ticket.
Recently sat in a wagon with broken air conditioning.
I was then able to reclaim my surcharge for the broken air conditioning at the station of arrival with my ticket.
You probably don't get such a service in the Netherlands.
That will be more like filing complaints and waiting months for your money.
“SRT is one of Thailand's largest land holders, owning an estimated 39,840 hectares, but SRT has debts of nearly 100 billion baht, and its annual operating losses are estimated at a minimum of 10 billion baht.[4] (Wikipedia).
The question of whether the SRT is allowed to sell that land is of course up to the government. Strangely enough (but not for Thailand perhaps) the SRT has sometimes suggested developing that country itself (condo, shopping malls). Seems like a good idea to me though.
Just like with Thai Airways, the accounts are kept red instead of making these companies more profitable or at least cost-effective in a sensible way.
So many locomotives???
Even half would suffice.
Narrow gauge or broad gauge does not matter. To do this, they only have to change the bogies (the whole with wheels) when making adjustments.
Big ambitions… I have a feeling there will be a lot of waste…