Thread: Maps and Trains of Thailand

Has anyone ever produced a reasonably detailed map of Ayutthaya?

I'll be buggered if I can find one!

Google has some

Is this one good enough or do you need better resolution ?

http://www.travelfish.org/map_detail...a/ayutthaya/32


Another one

Thanks for your efforts lom. I have already found the one above, and the Travelfish one is fractionally too small in it's coverage.

Ken May lives there and he hasn't found a decent one yet!

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Thanks for your efforts lom. I have already found the one above, and the Travelfish one is fractionally too small in it's coverage.

Ken May lives there and he hasn't found a decent one yet!

I now have a good Ayutthaya road map. It was produced by a foreign company.

I've made my own, Ken.

It's all on different layers, so you can show roads, or temples, village names, etc.,

I'd like to work on it with you at some point.

Some nice maps here, especially some of the Thai islands.

Here's some of Udon and Issan:

Udon Thani thailand maps & detailed udonthani information - udonmap.com

Hua HIn maps

HHAD - Hua Hin Map Hua Hin Area Map Hua Hin City Map

HHAD - Hua Hin Map Hua Hin Area Map Hua Hin City Map

Here's another listing of Thai maps:

Thailand Maps

Here's another one of Ayutthaya:

Provincial Maps

Go to number 10 and download the map.

The best maps I've found for rural areas of Thailand are the online maps published by Multimap (mentioned by DD in the OP). Here's a link centered on the approximate location of Chez Buadhai

Here's a graphic of that map showing the great detail of even tiny, minor roads:



By contrast, here's the best published paper map of the same area as shown in the MultiMap graphic:

Burma railway train reborn as tourist attraction
Hiroshi Osedo
September 08, 2007 12:00am

FEARED . . the restored Mitsubishi C-56-44 steam train.


THE sound of its whistle once struck dread into the hearts of Australian PoWs on the notorious Thai-Burma Railway during World War II.

Now Japanese tourists and day-trippers will pay for the privilege of riding on one of the steam trains that helped in the construction of the deadly 420km railway in 1942 and 1943.

Built by Mitsubishi in 1936, the engine C-56-44 was one of two shipped back to Japan from Thailand in 1979 and ran on the Oi-gawa River Railway in southwestern Japan from 1980 until 2003, when it was retired for boiler repairs.

After the war, C-56 locomotives were kept in service in Thailand until the 1970s and into the '80s in poverty-stricken Burma.

The restored locomotive now sports a new green paint job, as it did when it was in service in post-war Thailand, and sometimes used by the Thai royal families.

Now with a new boiler from a different model train, C-56-44 will shunt out of Kanaya Station for "irregular operations" on October 7.

The picturesque 37.5km line boasts 14 tunnels, including a 14m-long tunnel, Japan's shortest, in Shizuoka Prefecture, 180km southwest of Tokyo.

Now, weekend trips through the Japanese countryside will be the train's forte, says Masahiro Ueno of the Oi-gawa River Railway.

"The locomotive C-56 will be able to pull up to seven cars, depending on the number of passengers who want to ride," Mr Ueno said .

"It will not run every day, but on weekends only, perhaps."

About 2600 of the 9500 Australians forced to work on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway died, as did a further 13,000 English, Indian, Dutch and American prisoners as the Japanese pushed their way through the jungle in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to wrest control of India from the British.

Many of the PoWs died of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, beri-beri, overwork and starvation.

Australian veterans well-remember the horrors of the railway, which started 40km west of Bangkok, crossed Thailand and Burma to finish near Rangoon.

Rides on the revamped C-56 will cost $25 and take about an hour and 20 minutes to complete.

The sister engine of locomotive C-56-44, Number 31, has already been preserved at the Yasukuni Jinja, a shinto shrine in central Tokyo – the trains are two of the 164 originally built.
news.com.au

If the tourists are really lucky they may get to build a few bridges too.

thanks DD some good maps there

Brownie points for that thread. Map of Bangkok is awesome indeed

If you're gonna buy a farang friendly map of Thailand, the Nelles one is hard to beat. Great landmark features, national parks, waterfalls, wats etc and also city plans of Chiang Mai, Pattaya etc. Island maps of P'ket, Chang, Samui. Sweet.