The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is offering trips on a Japanese vintage train to monkey city, from Bangkok to Lopburi on the refurbished Kiha 183 diesel powered trains from Japan.
Seventeen used passenger train carriages from Japan’s Hokkaido Railway Company arrived in Chonburi last December, with the SRT paying 42.5 million baht for shipping.
The trains have been refurbished at SRT’s maintenance and repair center in Bangkok’s Makkasan area. Three of the 17 diesel powered trains delivered in December 2021 are ready to be used. The trains will be in use for another 15 to 20 years.
Carriages of the Kiha 183 series were manufactured between 1981 and 1982 and decommissioned in 2017. They had been used as limited express trains in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture.
The trains were developed specially to withstand the harsh, snowy winters in northern Japan. The driver’s cab of Kiha 183 is elevated for better visibility during snowfall. The slow train to monkey city features a ...
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