Train route runs through BKK market!!

Post by **Jaime** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:39 am

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

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=I0FUIBP6

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:47 am

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

VincentD · Post by **VincentD** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:31 am

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.

Post by **redzonerocker** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:42 am

VincentD wrote: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.

looks pretty similar to the tram system in croydon

don't you just love the thai attitude,10 seconds after its passed, business as usual

priceless

Post by **Bamboo Grove** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:01 am

A similar thing also happens in Samut Sonhkhram. With only one track and being in Bangkok, IÂ´d guess this is somewhere in Thonburi.

Post by **Ellinas2008** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:17 pm

redzonerocker wrote:
VincentD wrote: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.
looks pretty similar to the tram system in croydon

don't you just love the thai attitude,10 seconds after its passed, business as usual priceless

Well why not? They have been doing this probably for years. I am sure they know well by now the train itinerary.

I just wonder how many times a day this happens.

Post by **lomuamart** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:16 am

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.

Post by **lomuamart** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:27 am

Ellinas2008 wrote:
redzonerocker wrote:
VincentD wrote: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.
looks pretty similar to the tram system in croydon

don't you just love the thai attitude,10 seconds after its passed, business as usual priceless
Well why not? They have been doing this probably for years. I am sure they know well by now the train itinerary.

I just wonder how many times a day this happens.

I just wonder why you drag up old threads.
Mind you, you got me there.

Post by **kendo** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:45 am

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!

Post by **Digger** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:09 am

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

Post by **Digger** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:15 am

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

Post by **Georgy Porgy** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:12 am

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.