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Bangkok - Nong Khai: 1958 621 km (386 mi) Metre gauge: Nong Khai - Thanaleng, Laos: 2009 6 km (3.7 mi) Metre gauge: Kaeng Khoi Junction - Bua Yai Junction: 1967 251 km (156 mi) Metre gauge: Bangkok - Chiang Mai: 1926 661 km (411 mi) Metre gauge: Ban Dara Junction - Sawankhalok: 1910 29 km (18 mi) Metre gauge: Bangkok - Su-ngai Kolok: 1921 1,160 ...
The M-Map details plans for additional rapid transit lines in Bangkok and Metropolitan Region. Trams in Bangkok operated from 1888 and closed in 1968, following increases in road traffic. Bangkok is currently served by four rapid rail transit systems: the BTS Skytrain, the MRT, the Airport Rail Link and the SRT Red Lines.
The BTS Skytrain Map of Bangkok urban transit systems. Bangkok Metropolitan Region is served by 9 rapid transit rail lines as of 2023. The BTS Skytrain consists of three lines, the Sukhumvit Line, Silom Line and Gold Line.
Nearly all is single-track (2847.1 km), although some important sections around Bangkok are double (1,089.9 km or 677.2 mi) or triple-tracked (107 km or 66 mi) and there are plans to extend this. [1] By comparison, Thailand has 390,000 km (242,335 miles) of highways. [2]
Bangkok's first rail line was the private Paknam Railway linking Bangkok to Samut Prakan which opened in 1893. The national railway network was subsequently developed and first opened in 1896, linking Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima and then expanding to reach Chiang Mai, Nong Khai, Ubon Ratchathani and Su-ngai Kolok.
The government's aim is to reduce the nation's logistical overhead, some 1.75 trillion baht, by moving air and road freight to rail because moving a tonne of freight by rail costs 0.93 baht per kilometre compared with 1.72 baht by road, but 86 percent of Thailand's freight moves by road and only 2 percent by rail.
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Greater Bangkok commuter rail is a commuter rail system in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, Saraburi Province, Lopburi Province, Suphan Buri Province, Ratchaburi Province, Chacheongsao Province, Nakhon Nayok Province, Prachinburi Province, and Samut Songkhram Province. It runs from and to the outskirts of the city ...