Train route runs through BKK market!!

Jaime · Ace Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1888 Location: Sh*t Creek

Don't worry - not an accident, just life in Thailand! Anyone know where it is?

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=I0FUIBP6
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STEVE G · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:47 am Post subject:

That’s great Jaime, I imagine that the stall holders must have to be pretty clued-up on the train time-table.

VincentD · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:31 am Post subject:

I'd be tempted to think this video was taken somewhere around the Bobei market area, just a little further along the line out of Hualampong.

There are other places they do this, too. Seen this (though not every day) at the Klong Tan station behind Petchburi road.

Railway carnage, unfortunately, is more widespread than you think.
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redzonerocker · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

Bamboo Grove · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:01 am Post subject:

A similar thing also happens in Samut Sonhkhram. With only one track and being in Bangkok, I´d guess this is somewhere in Thonburi.
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lomuamart · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:16 am Post subject:

The worst I saw was on a train from Sungai Kolok to BKK. We were about three hours out of SK and the train stopped after a station. It reversed and I was poking my head out to see what what was wrong.
Well, a pickup had tried to beat the unmanned level crossing and didn't make it.
Messy - ouch.
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lomuamart · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:27 am Post subject:

kendo · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:45 am Post subject:

I was e-mailed this about a year ago wota corker,they could use plenty of excuses why the train is late, and not that old chestnut there's leaves on the line! Very Happy

Digger · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

Jaime
I just tried to open this Megavideo and all I got was 'Find my date in Buenos Aires'
I used to go to Thailand for girls,Argentina I came to for Vida Tranquilo
However it was always a great experience to come into Hulampong by train from either North or south as it was always early morning and for the last 10 minutes you got a huge overview of life near the rails in BKK.
And of course the roads in downtown had to be barriered down as well

Digger · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:15 am Post subject:

Well, a pickup had tried to beat the unmanned level crossing and didn't make it.

Lomu,if you think that is bad,in Warri,Nigeria they have to close a road that runs across the northern end of the runway when a plane lands and yes it happens,car tries to outrun plane and plane has to abhort landing and am sure one crash has occured,however 10 years since I was in that horrendous place and am sure nothing has changed,it never does in Nigeria

Georgy Porgy · Member Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Australia

The original film may have been the train trip from Wong Wian Yai Station, Bangkok to Mahachai and Samut Songkran.
Price 12 Baht each way, one hour to Mahachai, then cross the river by ferry to continue on from the railway station there, and the trip is still going strong!
Do a google and you will find several Youtubes and references to it. Smile