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Bangkok’s Gold Line

January 4, 2021 By Greg Jorgensen Leave a Comment

After many years of waiting, Bangkok’s brand new Gold Line finally opened on December 16 2020, the newest addition to the city’s expanding family of electric train lines. By most estimations, Bangkok will boast around 450km of them by 2025 (subject to the shifting whims of Thai politics). Not bad for a city that, until […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: bangkok, gold line, metro, thailand

Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway

November 23, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway is a planned railway that will connect Bangkok to Nong Khai in northeast Thailand on the Laos border. It will then be connected to the China-Laos railway in Laos, providing a railway connection from Bangkok to Vientiane, and onwards to Kunming in China. This new railway is a double-track standard-gauge […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: ayutthaya, bang sue, bangkok, don muang, khon kaen, nakhon ratchasima, nong khai, railways, thailand, udon thani

Thai Bridge – A proposed sea bridge across the Bay of Bangkok

October 20, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Thai Bridge (Saphan Thai) is a proposed bridge spanning the Bay of Bangkok, connecting Chonburi Province in Eastern Thailand to Phetchaburi Province on the Gulf Coast. While the exact location isn’t stated, it is roughly from Pattaya to Hua Hin. The project has been quoted at 900 billion baht (29 billion USD). The bridge […]

Filed Under: Thailand Tagged With: bridge, chonburi, petchaburi, thai bridge, thailand

Chumphon – Ranong Railway

October 19, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Chumphon – Ranong Railway is a proposed branch railway from the Thailand Southern Line, connecting the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea. The line begins at the current Chumphon railway station and follows a similar route to Highway No. 4 to Ranong. The line would be 109 km with 33 km of elevated […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: chumphon, railways, ranong, thailand

Pattaya Monorail – Linking the high-speed railway to the beach

September 28, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Pattaya Monorail is a proposed railway that would connect the future Pattaya high-speed railway station with the popular beach area of the city. The monorail was first proposed in 2008, and since then it’s gone from monorail to tram/light rail, subway, and back to monorail. The routes have varied over this time, and there […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: monorail, pattaya, thailand

Phuket Light Rail – The proposed transit railway connecting Phuket Airport to the Old Town and Chalong

September 1, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Phuket Light Rail is a proposed light rail transit system for the island of Phuket in Thailand. The current plan is for the railway to start at the airport in the north of the island, travel south to Phuket Town and end at Chalong. The total length would be about 40km. In the future […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: light rail, phuket, thailand

Chao Phraya Sky Park – Bangkok’s pedestrian garden bridge across the Chao Phraya River

July 6, 2020 By Greg Jorgensen Leave a Comment

There has never been a lack of ambitious civil projects in Bangkok. Often done in an effort to add beauty and/or efficiency to a stagnant area or system, they are usually opened with great fanfare and lots of smiling officials, and then quietly left to die an ignoble death once the hype dies down. Famous […]

Filed Under: Thailand Tagged With: bangkok, bridge, parks, thailand

Khon Kaen Transit System – The proposed light rail transit (LRT) in Khon Kaen

June 9, 2020 By James Clark Leave a Comment

The Khon Kaen Transit System (KKTS) is a proposed light rail transit (LRT) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Khon Kaen Khon in the Isaan region of Northeast Thailand. A BRT system of 4 lines was proposed in 2012, and in 2015 the plan was changed to convert the North-South Red BRT line into a […]

Filed Under: Railways, Thailand Tagged With: khon kaen, public transport, thailand

The Thai Canal – The proposed canal across the Isthmus of Kra in Southern Thailand

May 12, 2020 By James Clark 6 Comments

The Thai Canal (also known as the Kra Canal) is a proposed canal that would cut across the Malay Peninsula in Southern Thailand. This man-made waterway would connect the Andaman Sea with the Gulf of Thailand, providing a maritime shortcut by rerouting shipping away from the Strait of Malacca. The canal of approximately 100 km […]

Filed Under: Thailand Tagged With: thai canal, thailand

The East–West Economic Corridor Railway from Myanmar to Vietnam

April 21, 2020 By James Clark 3 Comments

The East–West Economic Corridor is an economic development program spanning across mainland Southeast Asia, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, with Cambodia also included. The corridor was envisaged as a land bridge connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans, saving the sea route via the Malacca Strait. The road route connects the port cities of Mawlamyine […]

Filed Under: Laos, Myanmar, Railways, Thailand, Vietnam Tagged With: laos, myanmar, railways, thailand, vietnam

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