HHTel wrote:"I hope they have better catering, very disapointing and beer on my train!"
Alcohol is banned on all trains in Thaiand. You can't even take your own - if found, it will be confiscated. Having said that, Railway employees have been seen drinking openly on these trains and it was drunken employees which led to the ban!
LOL - sale of alcohol was banned nationwide for the last 2 days, but you found a way around it
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A little different BB. Alcohol was banned for consumption 11th July 2014. The reason was of an incident when a poor girl was beaten and raped and thrown off the train just south of HH. The aggressor was an employee of SRT but the knee-jerk reaction was to ban alcohol on all forms of transport.
Getting a drink on 'Buddha days is a completely different scenario.
I always found it amusing on the HH - Butterworth route... the guy who came around to takes orders for table service clearly knows the regulars. As soon as the train passed the border into Malaysia we was coming around offering beers to those that he thought would want one.
Considering the respective images that Thailand and Malaysia have when it comes to alcohol consumption.
I speak in the past tense because the last couple of times I've done the route, we've changed onto an express train after hitting the border, which doesn't have any form of catering.
Actually, if you look through the link provided by Nereus the seating in the 2nd class sleeping car is the same as the seating in the 2nd class seating car.
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