Night trains
Night trains from Bangkok
4 sleeper routes · Thailand
4 night trains serve Bangkok in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Hat Yai, Chiang Mai, Vientiane, Ubon Ratchathani. The longest is the Hat Yai Special Express at 945 km (≈ 16 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1918. Board in the evening, wake up 945 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Hat Yai Special Express
Thailand’s southern flagship: 945 km down the Kra Isthmus past Hua Hin’s royal station and Surat Thani’s ferry piers, the sleeper gateway to Malaysia.
- Chiang Mai Express
Thailand’s classic sleeper: dinner past Ayutthaya’s temples, dawn in the teak hills of Lanna.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bangkok–Vientiane Express
Since July 2024 the sleeper rolls straight across the Mekong Friendship Bridge, asleep past Ayutthaya, awake in Laos: the first through train from Bangkok into central Vientiane.
Wikipedia ↗ - Isan Watthana
Thailand’s smartest sleeper: Chinese-built berths glide out of Bangkok at dusk and wake along the Mun River in Ubon Ratchathani, deep in southern Isan.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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