Thread: Red Line suburban train service to start at 5am from Tuesday

Bangkok’s Red Line suburban train service will begin daily operations half an hour earlier, at 5am, from tomorrow (Tuesday) and will increase the train frequency from every 12 minutes to 10 minutes from 7am to 9am and from 5pm to 7.30pm.


The train frequency during the off-peak hours will also be changed from every 20 minutes to every 15.


Sutep Punthupeng, CEO of the SRT Electrified Train Company, a subsidiary of the State Railway of Thailand, said that the adjustment of service hours and the increased train frequency are intended to offer more convenience to commuters, many of whom are air passengers travelling to Don Mueang airport before dawn to catch flights.


As for the western route, from the Krung Thep Aphiwat (Bang Sue) station to Taling Chan, the frequency of service during the peak hours remains unchanged, at 20 minutes between trains, but the frequency during off-peak hours will be changed from every 30 minutes to every 20.


The Red Line is currently serving up to 24,000 passengers per day, except for Fridays when the volume increases to about 25,000.


The SRT Electrified Train Company has set a target to increase the number of passengers using the service by 10%this year and next, which is higher than the annual average increase of 7-8%.

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Here is a map for anyone who's interested where it is.

Is this yet another ticket, distinct from BTS, MRT and SRT?
If I arrive at Don Mueang and want to go to Sukhumvit, is there one ticket for that?

^ Yes Shu I think it will be. There is talk of combining all the services but as you can imagine, this is going to be a total cluster fuck.

We have used this service a few times now when going to and from Don Mueang/ Taling Chan, great experience.

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

There is talk of combining all the services but as you can imagine, this is going to be a total cluster fuck.

I don't doubt that the core problem will be that each of the different parties will want to hold on to the cash that we gift them to buy stored value tickets. This could easily be resolved if the government set up a company to own the business but I don't suppose that will ever happen.
Time was I had a Hong Kong Octopus card, a MacauPass and a Shenzhen card, whatever that was called. Back then I used to know "Mr. Octopus" who managed that HK business and I asked him if there were plans to merge into a mega-city card. He said they were trying to work out how to do it, since it involved three different currencies and competing interests over who got to keep what cash. It's a brilliant business model, people give you cash and you give them a plastic card.

Originally Posted by Shutree

If I arrive at Don Mueang and want to go to Sukhumvit, is there one ticket for that?

Yep, a taxi