Chumphon railway station is a railway station in Tha Taphao Subdistrict,
Chumphon City, and is the main railway station for
Chumphon Province. It is a class 1 railway station, from
Thon Buri railway station
Thon Buri railway station ( th, สถานีรถไฟธนบุรี) formerly known as Bangkok Noi railway station (สถานีรถไฟบางกอกน้อย), is a railway station in Siriraj Sub-district, Bangkok Noi ...
. It is the first fueling station from
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...
, and thus all trains going further south must stop here. Chumphon is also the site of a locomotive depot.
On the site, there are two decommissioned locomotives:
* 178 Unit No. 21810 (
North British Locomotive Company)
* 235 Unit No. 59441 (
Baldwin Locomotive Works)
History
Chumphon was the location where the two sides of the
Southern Line construction met, one from Thon Buri, one from U-Taphao Junction (
Hat Yai). This was completed on 17 September 1916, and services started running from Thon Buri to U-Taphao, stopping at Chumphon and
Thung Song Junction for fueling and resting (at the time no services ran at night). In 1922, night services became available.
Chumphon was a water and wood refueling station for
steam locomotives, as well as a place for reducing carriages going further south.
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
, Chumphon acted as a junction for the 90 km military line to Khao Fachi,
Ranong
Ranong ( th, ระนองPronunciation) is a town ('' thesaban mueang'') in southern Thailand, capital of the Ranong Province and the Mueang Ranong District. The town covers completely the area of the '' tambon'' Khao Niwet (เขานิ ...
, under the coordination of the
Imperial Japanese Army
The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...
. The line was built in December 1943. In March 1945, Allied bombings (using
Consolidated B-24 Liberators) destroyed Chumphon station and the line to Khao Fachi. After the war, the Japanese requested the dismantling of the railway to prevent further Allied attacks on Japanese military bases.
Chumphon Station was rebuilt in 1948.
Train services
* Special Express 43/44 Bangkok-Surat Thani-Bangkok
* Special Express 35/36 Bangkok-Padang Besar-Bangkok
* Special Express 37/38 Bangkok-Sungai Kolok-Bangkok
* Rapid 171/172 Bangkok-Sungai Kolok-Bangkok
* Rapid 169/170 Bangkok-Yala-Bangkok
* Express 83/84 Bangkok-Trang-Bangkok
* Rapid 173/174 Bangkok-Nakhon Si Thammarat-Bangkok
* Rapid 167/168 Bangkok-Kantang-Bangkok
* Express 85/86 Bangkok-Nakhon Si Thammarat-Bangkok
* Special Express 39/40 Bangkok-Surat Thani-Bangkok
* Special Express 41/42 Bangkok-Yala-Bangkok
* Ordinary 254/255 Lang Suan-Thon Buri-Lang Suan
* Rapid 177/178 Thon Buri-Lang Suan-Thon Buri
* Local 445/446 Chumphon-Hat Yai Junction-Chumphon
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