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Rail Adventurer and Writer

Rail Adventurer and Writer

Rail Adventurer and Writer

Rail Adventurer and Writer

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Steam Week on the river Kwai

Steam Week on the River Kwai

I have referred to ‘steam week’ in Kanachanaburi as one of Thailand’s best kept railway secrets. The dates are not published until just a few weeks before the event, communication is i…
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Bukit Timah station Singapore

Bukit Timah to Bangkok

In the 1920s the southern line in Thailand connected to Malaya and travel was popular by train between Bangkok and Singapore. In the days before sleeper carriages, passengers would stop in l…
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Steam train Hua Lamphong

The King’s Birthday

One of the problems of Thai ‘excursion trains’ is guessing when they might take place. Communications from the SRT are usually only in Thai, and can be very close the date they will take…
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The Khao Yai Express

I took the train to Pak Chong last week, departing from Bangkok’s new Central Terminal station for the very first time. Train 71 is described as an Express, which makes it sound more excit…
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The Floating Train

This was my first ever ‘excursion’ train trip in Thailand. These are special trains travelling at the weekend to popular tourism destinations. They tend to run on a timetable to allow pe…
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Bang Sue Junction book

Bang Sue Junction

The 1st of November has rushed towards me like an express train in my diary, and my latest book is finally published today. Being an author is a strange occupation. The months become years a…
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