Night train route
Bangkok–Vientiane Express
Bangkok → Vientiane · Thailand · Laos
Bangkok–Vientiane Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 647 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- State Railway of Thailand
- Train
- SRT through sleeper
- Countries
- Thailand, Laos
- In service since
- 2024
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- The 369 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 17458406 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: State Railway of Thailand — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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