Bangkok's hidden train repair yard

[anddy]

Interesting, especially for rail road aficionados:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/makkasan-bangkok-trains/index.html

with lots of pictures

[pong]

One of these parrotted recycled stories-this yard is near closed or is already or will be this year. The MAIN repair yard is daft easy to see when you sit in any northbound train just beyond Bang Sue Junction stop=more or less beside the brand new still under constr. BKK main Train terminal-due to open late this/early next yr. Its in fact very likely that when this station opens the old eastern line on the ground is to close all the way where its under the ARL=thats Lard Krabang.

Makkasan has been the subject of yearslong debate about what to turn into-the greenies want it to be a park, the thinkmoneyallthetimies (SRT has so giant big losses that any relief is welcome) in-of course-you guess it- another brandnew giant shoppingcentre

For really old time fashioned railway repair yards go to Burma or Vietnam.

Real trains/railway aficionadoś go to skyscrapercity and read the many reports of khun Wisaruth, a pensioned former SRT official.

[Guest]

Thai railways seem to have a policy of dumping waste at the most convenient location.   Hence, sleepers, rails and old trains may be left anywhere.  With the high steel content, at least the rails and trains could be recycled.

They do have a somewhat more endearing habit of displaying an old steam locomotive outside the station in many towns.

[reader]

2 hours ago, pong said:

For really old time fashioned railway repair yards go to Burma or Vietnam.

Do you have any info on the Vietnam locations, please?