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The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) (Thai: การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย, abbrev. รฟท., รฟท., RTGS : kan rot fai haeng prathet thai ) is the state-owned rail operator under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport in Thailand .
Thailand rail system map. Thailand has 4,431 kilometers of meter-gauge railway tracks not including mass transit lines in Bangkok. All national rail services are managed by the State Railway of Thailand.
The construction of the Bangkok-Ayutthaya railway began in 1891 and was completed on 26 March 1896, which marked the establishment of the railway business in Thailand. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Subsequently, the railway service was extended to Nakhon Ratchasima in 1900, forming the original section of what is now known as the Northeastern Line .
Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
The Kingdom of Siam, the country's name at that time, now known as Thailand.The first Siamese railway projects, which were discussed from the 1840s onwards, were aimed at linking the then British Burma to the Chinese market, which was to be run over Northern Siam for reasons of accessible terrain, a project that had been operating in various variations up to the 1880s, but never realized.
The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) announced in 2018 that bidding to construct a 60 kilometre-long, 23 station tram network in Phuket will commence in 2020. The 39 billion baht tram is part of the government's Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) plan which ensures it will be fast-tracked.
The Maeklong Railway (also known as the Mae Klong Railway) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway that runs for nearly 65 kilometres (40 mi) between Wongwian Yai, Bangkok, and Samut Songkhram in central Thailand. [1] The railway became famous for its route through the Maeklong Railway Market, nicknamed (Thai: ตลาด ...
The list does not include stations of the Burma Railway Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi-Thanbyuzayat which was demolished at the end of World War II. The list also does not include stations of railways not operated by the SRT, such as the Paknam Railway, the Phra Phutthabat Railway, the Bang Bua Thong Railway etc. The majority of railway stations/halts ...