Steam Locomotives at Thonburi Rail Depot

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) still maintains half a dozen steam locomotives that on four occasions a year are brought out to pull a special train from Bangkok's main terminus station, Hua Lamphong, to the historic city of Ayutthaya, a journey of around 70 miles. This remaining handful of once mighty queens of the iron road that have stubbornly refused to go to the scrapyard to join their once domineering brethren are lovingly maintained by the SRT and a gang of enthusiastic volunteers at the perfectly named Thonburi Locomotive House. A fitting location as Thonburi was once the key route into the capital on the SRT map, but that was then, now it has been reduced to an insignificant commuter line, while its former, famous waterfront terminus station has been unceremoniously chopped off from the railway map and all access to it in fact is gone, to make room for the massive concrete extension of the giant Siriraj Hospital, meaning that the stunted railway line now peters out more than a kilometre back from the menacingly dark waters of the Chao Phraya river. But while time and progress march inevitably on, more than a century of glorious railway history is lovingly kept alive on the rows of shining steel rails in the Thonburi yard. With the excursion set for tomorrow, today two of the mighty steam locomotives are being carefully prepared, readied to roll back the years once again. Of the six steam locomotives in the yard it is difficult to say how many are still in for ...



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