Scenic route
Maeklong Railway
Bangkok → Samut Songkhram · Thailand
Maeklong Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 67 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h
- Average speed
- 22 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- State Railway of Thailand
- Train
- SRT THN railcar
- Countries
- Thailand
- In service since
- 1905
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
At Mae Klong the train noses through Talat Rom Hup, the market whose stallholders whisk their awnings off the rails as it passes.
How this line was checked
- The 30 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 20088142 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 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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