Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville railway line

Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville
Route length:	264 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend 0.00 Phnom Penh Depot 6.72 Pouch tong Phnom Penh airport 9.40 Phlov Bambaek Phnom Penh – Poipet railway line 15.40 Trapeang Krasang 22.00 Prateah Lang 23.64 Preaek Tnaot (165 m) 26.10 Daeum Rues 27.60 Stueng Touch (84 m) 29.90 Prey Totueng 35.00 Ang Proch 40.60 Sra Sre 44.70 Komar Reachea 51.50 Tuek Ambel 58.50 Bali Chas 66.44 Stueng Svay Prey (108 m) 66.70 Slako 74.50 Takeo 76.05 (52 m) 83.7 Thommoda 90.50 Angk Kaev 92.20 Ou Chi Toub (70 m) 100.50 Tani 110.60 Tram Sasar 117.71 (55 m) 118.60 Tuk Meas 132.90 Kampong Trach 148.60 Damnak Chang'aeur 158.20 Koun Satv 162.03 Preaek Kampong Pou (74 m) 166.00 Kampot Industrial connection: cement works 168.52 Preaek Kampong Bay (252 m) 175.50 Bokor 179.26 (59.26 m) 180.79 Preaek Kaoh Touch (81.22 m) 182.40 Kaoh touch 188.06 (57.26 m) 194.51 Preaek Tnaot (57.26 m) 197.70 Trapeang Ropov 211.57 Preaek Kampong Smach (180 m) 216.60 Veal Renh 230.80 Sam Hav 230.97 (79.22 m) 240.60 Roluos 247.00 Thma Reab 252.50 Roungchak Prengkat 262.60 Sihanoukville 264.00 Autonomus Port Sihanoukville

The Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville ( Southern Railway ) railway is one of two main railway lines in Cambodia .

prehistory

Cambodia gained independence on November 9, 1953, and French Indochina dissolved the following year. With this, not only the political but also the economic unity of this former French overseas territory was lost. Up until then, Cambodia had used the overseas ports that were now abroad, in Vietnam , and now had to create an appropriate port for itself. From 1954 the port of Kompong Som (since 1959: Sihanoukville ) on the Gulf of Thailand was expanded and put into operation in April 1960. From 1956, with the help of the USA, a 224 km long asphalt road, National Road 4 (NR 4), was built between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, which was opened in 1960.

history

The only road connection to the port was considered inadequate and a rail link was sought. The project was started in 1960 in cooperation with France , the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China . The technical parameters of the existing Cambodian Northern Railway were chosen, especially the track width of 1000 mm. Between January 1966 and December 1969, the single-track line was put into operation in three successive sections.

During the rule of the Khmer Rouge , railway operations in Cambodia were suspended and the railway infrastructure was damaged or destroyed. After the Khmer Rouge was expelled in 1979, the restoration of the southern railway began in the 1980s.

Announcement of the reopening for passenger traffic from April 9, 2016 on the southern runway

business

For a long time, only freight trains ran on the route , if at all. Since April 2016, the Royal Railway has been running passenger trains on the southern runway again. According to the 2017 timetable, four trains run in each direction three days a week. According to the schedule, you need seven hours for the 263 km long route. Freight trains run every working day, among other things, fuel is transported to Phnom Penh in six block trains per week.

literature

• BR Whyte: The Railway Atlas of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia . White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok 2010, ISBN 978-974-480-157-9

Remarks

1. ↑ Longest railway bridge in Cambodia.
2. ↑ Second longest railway bridge in Cambodia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from Whyte, p. 161ff; Maps 23, 24, (updated).
2. ↑ Whyte, p. 161.
3. ↑ Whyte, p. 161.
4. ↑ Passenger Train. Royal Railway Cambodia, May 6, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 . 
5. ↑ aha: Phnom Penh - Sihanoukville line . In: IBSE-Telegram 319 (June 2017), p. 7.
6. ↑ News updated for February 2016. May 6, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .