Thread: Thailand : Train Derailments

Chiang Mai train derails yet again.
LAMPANG - A train jumped off the tracks on Friday near the spot in Hang Chat district where a similar incident took place last week, taking the total number of derailments on the route to four in the space of six weeks.

The Chiang Mai-Bangkok free service carrying around 80 passengers was on its way to the capital when it derailed at 8.10am.
Tenth State Railway of Thailand derailment this year | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

A Bangkok-bound train from Chiang Mai derailed in Lampang yesterday morning, but there were no casualties.

Somchai Kongchuensin, a senior official of the State Railway of Thailand, said there were 80 passengers on the train at the time of the accident.

He said the derailment happened at 6.35am in Lampang's Hang Chat district. More than 50 officials and engineers rushed to the scene to put the diesel locomotive back on its tracks. More than three hours passed before the locomotive and its 10 carriages were ready to resume operations.

A new locomotive was coupled at the next station to bring the 10 carriages to Bangkok.

Somchai said relevant officials would investigate the derailment further to determine the exact cause.

Chiang Mai train bound for Bangkok derails - The Nation

its a job for Mr Hornby to upgrade the rail system at last

the entire system is shagged ,knackered like an old dog ,and needs billions spent on it to upgrade it

Originally Posted by chingching

the entire system is shagged ,knackered like an old dog ,and needs billions spent on it to upgrade it

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...ond-china.html (High-speed rail beyond China)

The beauty of Thai railways is that the trains are relaxed, OK so they derail but it is not like Spain, China etc were they come of at 190kph killing many.

Northern train derailment 11th in nine months.
September 2, 2013 6:00 pm
Chiang Mai-Bangkok train services resumed at 5am Monday after officials salvaged a Bangkok-bound train that derailed in Lampang's Mae Mo district last night.

There was no injury to its 192 passengers.

This was the 11th northern train derailment in the past nine months.
Northern train derailment 11th in nine months - The Nation

I cannot fathom how they think building a high-speed rail network is a good idea. Better spend that (massive amount of) money on improving existing train safety and efficiency, better highways and driver education programs.

^^ Amongst other reasons, voters don't tend to elect politicians who make sure that the drains are cleaned every day; they seem to prefer politicians who put in multi-million dollar, state of the start, self-cleaning, hi-tech, precision engineered drains which break two days after the election.

the train on the way to fix the track derailed this morning

12th train derailment today
September 4, 2013 11:38 am
A maintenance train carriage derailed Wednesday morning in Phrae province, causing disruption on train services to the northern routes. This is the 12th derailment in this year. The accident took place at 8am in Denchai district, near the Kaengluang-Pakpan train station. The train carried stones to the point where a derailment took place last month and injured a number of passengers.
The State Railway of Thailand expects all train services to resume within 5pm today.

Train to Machai derails.
A train bound for Samut Sakhon jumped off the tracks at Talat Phlu station on Saturday, injuring two passengers, the State Railway of Thailand said.


Train No. 4323 left Wong Wiang Yai station for Mahachai at 10.40am and derailed at the next station about five minutes later. The injured passengers were sent to Samitivej Thonburi Hospital, the railway agency added.

SRT governor Prapat Chongsanguan blamed the derailment on the old tracks and said it underlined the need for the agency to urgently improve the lines and sleepers across the country.

The incident followed the derailment on Thursday night of an express train bound for Bangkok from Chiang Mai with more than 200 passengers in Long district of Phrae.

The 13th derailment of the year on the deteriorating northern line prompted the SRT to announce plans for a six-week maintenance shutdown.

The SRT will suspend services along a 300-kilometre stretch from Sila-art station in Uttaradit's Muang district to Chiang Mai from Sept 16 to Oct 31. Buses will be used to take passengers to and from Chiang Mai.
Mahachai-bound train jumps tracks | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Sleepers need wake up call,fish plates have been consumed,old buffers need oiling,Training 101

B2.8bn major repair for North railway
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has allocated 2.8 billion baht for major maintenance work on the northern line between Uttaradit and Chiang Mai in the wake of 13 derailments so far this year.
SRT governor Prapat Chongsanguan said services between the two provinces would be suspended from Sept 16 to Oct 31 while the maintenance is done. The SRT will provide buses to take passengers from Sila-art station in Uttaradit to destinations in Chiang Mai.

The work on the 300-kilometre line will include new sleepers and tracks as well as the replacement of soil with stone under the track in four tunnels. The one-kilometre Khun Tan tunnel alone will require 15-20 days to complete.

The state enterprise is confident that after the repairs, there will be no more derailments on the northern route.

The latest derailment occurred on Thursday night, when a train bound for Bangkok jumped off the tracks at around 11pm in Long district of Phrae province. There were more than 200 Thai and foreign passengers on the train which left Chiang Mai on 5pm Thursday, but no one was injured. The SRT repaired the track and reopened services from 9am Friday.

Mr Prapat said the SRT had already negotiated with contractors and expected the total cost would be 2.8 billion baht. The budget would come from 70 billion baht already approved by the government for railway maintenance nationwide.

"The suspension of service will help speed up the maintenance, which earlier was scheduled to finish in August 2014 as workers could work on the track only four hours a day," he added.

Currently, the SRT provides 10 services in both directions on the section, six of them express trains. The train serves approximately 2,000 passengers per day so the SRT is working with The Transport Company to provide the bus services from Sila-art station to Chiang Mai without additional cost. The road distance between the two destinations is around 260km.

The full distance between Bangkok and Chiang Mai is 751 kilometres. The train journey takes 15 hours on a normal train and 12 hours for express service.

Wuttichart Kalayanamitr, president of The Transport Co, said it had coordinated with intra-provincial bus operators to prepare up to 50 buses a day to serve passengers during the rail maintenance period.
Bangkok Post : B2.8bn major repair for North railway

Chiang Mai rail line closing Monday for repairs.
Service on the northern train line to Chiang Mai will be suspended for 45 days starting from Monday, as the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) carries out badly needed repairs after a dozen accidents this year.
All northbound trains from Bangkok will end at Sila At station in Muang district of Uttaradit from Monday until Oct 31, the SRT said.

The closure affects all rapid and express trains to and from the popular northern city. Travellers will have to take buses or other transport to Chiang Mai.

Regular service will resume on Nov 1 and by then SRT governor Prapat Chongsanguan has promised no more derailments.

The SRT is providing free bus service on Transport Co vehicles to Chiang Mai from Sila At only for passengers who reserved their tickets before Sept 6, the day that the railway agency announced the closure. That same day it stopped selling tickets to other stations beyond Sila At, an SRT Call Centre official explained on Saturday.

Passengers can contact the SRT at 1690 for more details.

The service suspension comes after 13 accidents on the northern tracks this year. The last one was on Sept 5 when an express train to Bangkok from Chiang Mai jumped the tracks in Long district of Phrae province.

All accidents on the northern tracks occurred on the section between Uttaradit and Lamphun, and have been attributed to the mountainous terrain, and old tracks and sleepers which need urgent maintenance.
Rail service from Uttaradit to Chiang Mai to end Monday | Bangkok Post: news

Good post,may I add it's hardly a free bus service for those who purchased a seat all the way ,on the contrary passengers should have been compensated for the inconvenience.The main attraction for me is to have a couple of large "Shandies " leaving bangkok and awake in a full lenght cot in C Mai for breakfast with none of the airport hassle,ding dong up and done,checks shuffle,search,shuffle queue etc.

Also reasaonble Song Thaew or free parking for wife at C mai Staion iunlike pisspoor airport

Train derails entering Hua Lamphong
16 Sep 2013

A passenger train from the South derailed near the train maintenance depot as it was arriving at Hua Lamphong station in Bangkok on Monday afternoon.

The train had travelled to Bangkok from Sungai Kolok station in Narathiwat province.

Prapat Chongsanguan, governor of the State Railway of Thailand, said that four carriages ran off the track. There were no reports of any injuries.

The governor said he suspected the accident was caused by subsidence in the bed below the track, which had softened as a result of flooding.

The derailment of the train would not interrupt any services on the Southern line as there were several alternative tracks, he added.

The latest derailment occured as the SRT finally begins long overdue major track maintenance and refurbishing on its Northern line, where there have been 13 derailments between Uttaradit and Chiang Mai this year. More than 100 derailments, most of them minor, have been reported nationwide this year.

All north-bound trains now stop at Sila-art station in Uttaradit, with passengers being transported by road between there and Chiang Mai in both directions. The full service between Bangkok and Chiang Mai is scheduled to resume on Nov 1, when repairs are due to be completed.

Mr Prapat said 5,100 passengers had sought refunds on advance bookings so far, with tickets worth approximately 4.3 million baht in total. Most of the passengers seeking refunds said it was inconvenient to switch between trains and buses at Sila-art station.

The average number of passengers travelling to Chiang Mai from Bangkok had dropped to just four or fewer people a day, significantly down from the 14,000-15,000 average during normal service.

The SRT had therefore changed its plan and would now use passenger vans instead of buses to carry passengers between Uttaradit and Chiang Mai.

Mr Prapat said mantenance and track repairs would focus urgently on improving the track on important sections, particularly the four rail tunnels.

Old wooden sleepers will be replaced with concrete ones to strengthen the track.

Workers push concrete sleepers to be used in the maintenance of track on the Northern train line.
Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd.

bangkokpost.com

Originally Posted by bangkokpost.com

More than 100 derailments, most of them minor, have been reported nationwide this year.

meanwhile : https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...d-china-2.html (High-speed rail beyond China)

^

quick Sombat get the broom and I'll lift the carpet ................

Not a derailment but could have been.

Drunk drives car on rails, delays trains.
A man drove his new CRV on the rail track for over two kilometres, with five passengers, in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district causing delays of almost two hours to train services early Monday.

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) plans legal action against the man and will seek damages of 800 baht per minute, according to a report in Thai Rath.

Traffic radio FM 100 reported at 5.45am Monday that six men, believed to be intoxicated, were seen aboard a brand new Honda CRV travelling on the rail track between Rong Poon intersection to the back of Petcharavej hospital on Phetchaburi Road, where the car had become stuck.

A rescue team with more than 20 men tried to move the car off the track for about two hours, but were unsuccessful. They eventually instructed the driver go backwards along the rails to the spot where he first entered the tracks.

The driver, Karakka Rakwongpat, 24, claimed that he was lost and decided to drive on the track believing there would be an exit. Police tested the man and found an alcohol level of 148 miligrammes percent, which is far higher than the legal limit.

Mr Karakka was charged with drunk driving and causing damage to property.

The incident delayed an empty train due to begin collecting passengers for 107 minutes at Makkasan train station. Other trains were also affected, the SRT said.

SRT governor Prapas Chongsanguan said the SRT willl charge the men and claim compensation of 800 baht per minute for the delay, around 85,600 baht. This is based on the average fares of passengers affected by the delay and the damage to almost 400m of rail track.
Drunk man drives CRV on rail track, delays trains | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

First train back to North derails, with SRT governor on board
December 2, 2013

LAMPHUN -- The first train to re-launch services to the North after weeks of closure for railway maintenance, travelling with State Railway of Thailand Governor Prapat Chongsanguan on board, derailed Monday morning, just when the Bangkok-Chiang Mai express was about to reach Lamphun. Fortunately, there were no injuries.

Services on the route were suspended for the day pending officials' clearing the derailed bogie away.

This derailment, reportedly involving the last bogie that was set up as a conference room, reportedly resulted from an error by an official in Lamphun in switching the track too fast - not from the condition of the rail line, Prapat said Monday.

nationmultimedia.com

BANGKOK: -- Two trains, one in Chiang Mai and another in Nakhon Ratchasima derailed yesterday but caused no injury.
The first incident happened at Chiang Mai railway station while the Nakornping- Bangkok express train was about to depart for Bangkok at about 10.45 a.m.

Two train bogies jumped off the track while the train was moving backward to run on another rail line. There was no passenger on the two bogies. Crane has to spend several hours before the two empty bogies were lifted and put back on the tracks.

Another derailment was reported at about 8.00 a.m. yesterday in Nakhon Ratchasima when a cargo train went off the track near Thung Salaeng station. The derailment caused heavy damage to the train wheels.

The governor of the State Railway of Thailand Prapat Chongsa-nguan had earlier declared before major maintenance of the northern rail line from Lampang to Chiang Mai that he would step down if there was further derailment on the route after maintenance work completed.

But maintenance has completed almost five months and derailment also happened many times. Even on the first day of the test run the security of the line, the train also derailed and he was on that train.

Source: http://englishnews.t...derail-may-day/