High Speed Train Thailand

In January 2013, the Sino Thai Engineering and Construction Public
Company Limited and the Unique Engineering and Construction Public
Company Limited, were awarded a multi-billion Thai Baht project, to build the High Speed Train network in Thailand.

Bang Sue Junction Station in Bangkok is the proposed new main train station in Bangkok and will replace Hua Lamphong Station, which will eventually be closed.

It will be a 12 platform train station and the terminal station for all trains heading to Bangkok.

It will also be the main terminal for all routes of the new High-Speed
Rail (at least 250Kmph) which will reduce the travelling time in between
Bangkok and Chiang Mai from around 15 hours nowadays to just 3.5 hours!
  

The High-Speed services will use the same kind of Chinese
high-speed trains already in use by China Railways, known
as CRH.

Model of a High-Speed Rail Train

High-Speed trains already running in China

It will run on 5 routes and it will connect Thailand to Laos and the
People’ s Republic of China in the North and to Malaysia and Singapore
in the South:

• Bangkok – Chiang Mai
• Bangkok – Nong Khai
• Bangkok – Ubon Ratchathani
• Bangkok – Rayong
• Bangkok – Padang Besar

Map of the planned routes of the High-speed railway network in SE Asia

From Nong Khai the High-Speed Train will be going to Vientiane in Laos
and then all the way North to the Beijing South Railway Station in The
People’s Republic of China and from Padang Besar the it
will be going all the way South to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. This way
it will help connect and integrate the whole South East Asia region to
China.

Beijing South Railway Station

The State Railway of Thailand also plans to add more commuter trains from the new station.

There are also many projects going on that will improve the connection of the new train station:
 
–
the actual MRT Blue Line that stops at Bang Sue is being extended and
it will be connected by an interchange to the new MRT Purple Line that
will link Bang Sue to Bang Bua Thong in Nonthaburi.

– two SRT Lines
(Commuter Rail) known as the Light Red Line and the Dark Red Line are
also being built and both will have an interchange station at Bang Sue.

–
the Airport Rail Link which is being extended to link Bangkok two
airports, Don Muang Airport and Suvarnabhumi Airport, will also stops at
Bang Sue.
 
After the completion of all these different projects
the new Bangkok Train Station and Depot will really be a huge local and
international transport hub.
 
This new railway station was set to
be finished by 2015 but it will most probably not be completed on time
and it should take many more years to become a reality.

For more information regarding the High Speed Train in Thailand go to:

• www.sepo.go.th/highspeedrail/dowload/HSR%20Inform.pdf

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