State Railway of Thailand (SRT) still has half a dozen steam locomotives, four to be done once a year for a special train from Bangkok's main terminus station Hua Lamphong move led to the historic city of Ayutthaya, a trip about 70 miles. The few who remained of a once powerful queens of the road of iron, which have stubbornly refused to go to the scrap yard to join their brothers, once dominant are lovingly cared for SRT and a group of enthusiastic volunteerswell as Thonburi Locomotive House. Thonburi as a suitable location was once a key street in the capital on the SRT paper, but that was then, has now been reduced to an insignificant line S, while its famous waterfront former head station was unceremoniously hacked out of the way and of all access to it is in fact gone to make room for the massive expansion of the giant cement Siriraj Hospital, which means that the line now more broken petersa kilometer back from the waters dark and foreboding of the Chao Phraya River. But while the march of progress and time, inevitably, more than a century of glorious history of the railway has been lovingly kept alive the rows of polished steel in the Thonburi rail yard. With tour set for tomorrow, today two of the powerful steam locomotives will be carefully prepared, ready to restore the new year. Of the six steam locomotives in the yard is still difficult to say how many...
Tags: steam, engines, thonburi, pacific, locomotive, bangkok, thailand, no, 824, 850, 950
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