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Home » News from Thailand » Feasibility study rail connection between Hat Yai and Padang Besar (Malaysia)
Feasibility study rail connection between Hat Yai and Padang Besar (Malaysia)
Posted in News from Thailand
Tags: Hat Yaic, Malaysia, Rail connection, State Railway of Thailand
The State Railway of Thailand has been asked by the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning to conduct a feasibility study on a rail link between Hat Yai and Padang Besar on the Malaysian border.
It is a double track connection of 48 kilometers with the usual track width in Thailand of 1 meter. The costs for the construction are estimated at 7,9 billion baht. If the SRT considers it a feasible plan, the proposal will go to the cabinet in May.
The SRT has already asked Japan to conduct a feasibility study into a high-speed line between Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur at an earlier stage. Next week, Minister Arkhom (Transport) will discuss this with his Malaysian colleague. the study may start this year.
Source: Bangkok Post
Well,
It is incomprehensible that people keep citing those 1000mm wide railway rails.
Have they recently bought new wagons, are only a few months old and another train has derailed at Bang Sue.
Almost all of the world has 1340mm and that appears to be the most stable width, but no, Thailand does its own thing again, with all the consequences that entails.
Amazing Thailand.
I think there is a single track rail connection between hat yai and pedang besar.
Previously, there was no express train from Bangkok to Malaysia with the Thai train and one from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian train.
What is the point of making that piece double track if the rest is only single track in Thailand .
I think the express train runs from Bangkok to pedang besar and you have to change to the Malaysian train there. So at the border station.
B. Geurts
Nico is talking about something he has no idea about. The track width is 1 meter throughout Southeast Asia.
So in vietnam , cambodia . Malaysia . Thailand. Burma.
Thailand used to have normal track, this has been changed to connect with the rest.
That 1 meter track is not as stable as normal track is largely true, but the big problem is that the track infrastructure is completely deteriorated. It would of course be better to switch to normal track in the long term in consultation with the surrounding states. PS in Cambodia the railway network has lost approximately 1 billion dollars. I think there is some money left behind somewhere.
So switching up if it remains a utopia for the time being. Maybe a hsl to chang mai on normal gauge.
According to insiders, the only one that is profitable.
Ben
Coincidentally, we traveled by train from Penang to Hat Yai on Saturday.
I can't imagine that replacing it will be profitable, but it seems useful, the train is not very modern (to say it very subtly.)
You do indeed have to transfer, and the Malaysian equipment is much more modern.
A lot of water will flow through the desert before anything happens, buying vans on LPG also takes a decade ...
An HSL from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur is not economically feasible for the following reasons:
1: the distance is too far travel time about 9 to 10 hours by plane 5 to 6 hours incl travel time to and from the airport.
The max. distance for a hsl is about 1500 km.
An HSL from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is, in my humble opinion, economically feasible.
To build a high-speed rail line, the entire rail infrastructure is turned upside down. (New routes with standard gauge (the costs will be astronomical. (Just look at what the hsl has cost in the Netherlands and that is only a short distance or the Betuwe line).
Only for a hsl to chang mai a minimum factor of 10.
So a hsl to Kuala Lumpur doesn't come to chang mai ja in my opinion.
Ben