Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway line

Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway line
Kantang train station
Route length:	93 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend Railway Bangkok-Thonburi-Sungai Kolok from Bangkok 757.08 Thung Song Junction Southern Railway to Padang Besar and Sungai Kolok 765.57 Thi Wang 773.08 Ban Phun 776.33 Kapang 780.97 Khuan Mao 789.49 Khlong Muan 795.43 Yang Yuan 800.82 Huai Yot 814.51 Lam Phu Ra 819.86 Khlong Teng 823.02 Suan Man 829.28 Trang 832.67 Well Po 835.86 Phru Yai 843.25 Ban Pa Ko 854.00 Pa Tiao 850.08 Kantang

The Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway branches off from the Thai Southern Railway and is operated by the Thai State Railway.

history

Kantang train station: street side

Kantang train station: train detection system and picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX.)

Signal box of the Huai Yot station

The Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway was built as part of the construction of the Southern Railway. Great Britain and Thailand signed a contract on March 10, 1909 for the construction of the southern railway south of Phetchaburi to the Thai / Malaysian border. With this contract, Great Britain also promised a loan of 4 million pounds for the project and thus secured the corresponding influence, also with regard to the technical parameters of the project. So here too the track width of 1000 mm was chosen, in which the main lines in the British-dominated Malaysia were also operated.

Due to the length of the southern runway of approx. 1000 km, its construction was advanced simultaneously from three locations: From Phetchaburi to the south, from the port of Songkhla on the east coast and from the port of Kantang on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. This is how the Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway was created as a delivery route for the construction of the southern railway. After this went into operation, it was a branch line of the southern runway.

Thung Song Junction – Kantang railway line was opened in two sections. Since June 1, 1914, it has been continuously passable.

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from Whyte: The Railway Atlas , p. 52f, maps 18f.
2. ^ Whyte: The Railway Atlas of Thailand , p. 41.
3. ^ Whyte: The Railway Atlas of Thailand , p. 42.
4. ^ Whyte: The Railway Atlas of Thailand , p. 52.