Guide to #RailTourism in Thailand and SE Asia by @RichardBarrow. More on @AsianTrainGuide. Help keep the guide free: https://xitter.cf/t.co/VgpFUe5LOr
Thailand, Southeast Asia
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Due to continuous heavy #rainfall and unsafe conditions in the area, including #flooding and the potential risk of landslides and rockfalls, #HellfirePass and walking trail are temporarily closed until further notice.
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🚂 ⚠️ Flooding disrupts train services in northern and eastern Thailand
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has announced major service changes and cancellations following heavy rainfall and flooding over railway tracks on 26 September 2026.
🚆 Northern Line
Flooding has closed part of the main Northern Line in Nakhon Sawan Province, between Nong Pho and Noen Makok stations. This is the main railway between Bangkok and northern Thailand, affecting travel towards destinations including Phitsanulok, Den Chai, Lampang and Chiang Mai.
Some passengers on trains already en route are being transferred by road around the flooded section.
SRT has also cancelled nine long-distance trains from their starting stations, comprising the overnight trains between Bangkok and Chiang Mai in both directions, together with services between Bangkok and Den Chai. The cancellations will remain in place until further notice.
Passengers holding tickets for cancelled trains can receive a full refund at any SRT station nationwide.
🚆 Eastern Line
Flooding has also closed sections of the Eastern Line in Sa Kaeo Province, affecting trains towards Aranyaprathet and the Cambodian border.
Several services from Bangkok towards Chachoengsao, Kabin Buri, Ban Klong Luk and Chuk Samet have been cancelled or shortened.
🌧️ With flooding and weather conditions continuing to change, passengers planning train journeys are strongly advised to check the latest service information before travelling.
SRT train status: ttsview.railway.co.th
SRT hotline: 1690 (24 hours)
#Thailand #TATNews #ThaiTravelNews #ThailandTravel #ThailandRailways #SRT #TrainTravel #TravelUpdate #Flooding
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There is no denying the bad ride quality of these trains, mainly down to track quality, however I still managed 5 hours sleep and woke up to some stunning #TrainWindowViews and a nice @_DiningCar breakfast in northern Thailand 🇹🇭 #NonstopEurotrip
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Tonight I am onboard SRT Express No.51 with @RichardBarrow @ThaiTrainGuide from #Bangkok to #ChiangMai 🇹🇭 This 13 hour journey costs €20 in a Second Class sleeper, which all have privacy curtains 🚆 A long weekend of R&R awaits me in the north of #Thailand 😎 💆♂️ #NonstopEurotrip
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Phichit Railway Station;
Constructed 1907 under King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) and is only one of two stations designed in formal Italian Neo-Classical architecture, the other being Bangkok Station.
Note one platform so either Nth or Sth (Bangkok or Chiang Mai), easy as 👍 – at Phichit, Thailand
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The fare from Rangsit to Hua Lamphong station is B6 on an old train. The equivalent journey by Red Line and MRT is more than B100.
Many complain about Thailand’s beaten-up old trains, but Thailand railways provide cheap (or free) travel for Thai people, especially between the provinces and Bangkok. Cheaper than long distance busses too.
Thai Train Guide retweeted
A #Thailand train stops just outside Hua Lamphong station to pick up SRT (railway company) employees waiting beside the track.
Guess it must be a perk of the job.
Thai Train Guide retweeted
Nice clean #Thailand sleeper train. This is how they look before the beds are made up.
And here you see the young lady making up the beds.
I prefer this older sleeper to the newer China sleeper… the beds are bigger and they travel slower, so more comfortable.
Thai Train Guide retweeted
The sun goes down on Southern #Thailand
View from the train. What a glorious way to travel.
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Never underestimate what a vendor will try to sell on a train in #Thailand
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on the KIHA 40 Connex train to Ayutthaya this morning ☀️
beautiful japanese train 🚊
appropriately m…left exactly on time 9:05 🇯🇵 ⏰
50 thb
@ThaiTrainGuide
Thai Train Guide retweeted
The new SRT Bangkok Connex service uses refurbished KiHa 40 and KiHa 48 diesel multiple units originally operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). These classic Japanese railcars, built between the late 1970s and early 1980s and retired around 2021–2023. – at Bang Sue, Bangkok
Thai Train Guide retweeted
🎥 VIDEO WALKTHROUGH: The newly refurbished KiHa 183 train from Japan that will start running in #Thailand soon on tourist routes. Altogether there are 17 of these trains.
#รถไฟไทย #thaitrain #railway #trains #railfan #railwayphotography #trainphotography #Thailand #kiha183
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The Khlong Tan Sunday morning market, officially known as Khlong Tan Railway Station Market and commonly called Talat Lao or the Laos Market, has operated for several decades along the active railway tracks beside Khlong Tan Railway Station in Bangkok.
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NEW VIDEO! Let's head to Thailand to ride another British train abroad - the Class 158 on the Special Express from Bangkok to Pattaya. And there are quite a lot of differences compared to the UK variant! 😂
WATCH: youtu.be/K8xGnwWm9OU
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New @AsianTrainGuide video now live! 😎 A complete guide to sleeper trains in #India 🇮🇳
Watch 👉🏻 youtu.be/CkCS6vDM2EU
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Chiang Mai - Lampang return ฿46 ~ £1
2h each way. Local rail car 3rd class with fan.
Lovely journey including climb to Kuhn Tan and decent through jungle.
@ThaiTrainGuide @OnTheRails
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We're taking the train to Baan Grood for a few days.
I really like Apiwat Central Station. OK, it doesn't have the character and quirkiness of Hualampong, but sometimes all you want to do is find a seat, grab a coffee and some snacks, and then go to the correct platform and get on the correct train. Apiwat is better for all of those things than Hualampong ever was.
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