Taling Chan Station is a railway station located in
Taling Chan District
Taling Chan ( th, ตลิ่งชัน, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbours, clockwise from the north, are Bang Kruai district of Nonthaburi province and Bang Phlat, Bangkok Noi, Bangkok Yai, Ph ...
,
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 ...
. It is operated by the
State Railway of Thailand and serves two routes: the Southern Main Line and the Bang Sue–Taling Chan
SRT Light Red Line. It is located 22.136 kilometres from
Bangkok Railway Station. Taling Chan Junction serves as a junction for the mainline from Bangkok and the short branchline to
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 ...
, near
Siriraj Hospital.
Taling Chan Station is also the terminus for the current Light Red Line from Bang Sue. In the past, the station building was a wooden structure with about 5 platforms. Since 2009, the station has been rebuilt to concrete and other tracks were removed for the
SRT Light Red Line new tracks.
Train services
*Ordinary 261/262 Bangkok–Hua Hin–Bangkok
*Rapid 171/172 Bangkok–Sungai Kolok–Bangkok
*Rapid 169/170 Bangkok–Yala–Bangkok
*Commuter 355/356 Bangkok–Suphan Buri–Bangkok
*Ordinary 251/252 Bang Sue Junction–Prachuap Khiri Khan–Bang Sue Junction
*Ordinary 254/255 Lang Suan–Thon Buri–Lang Suan
*Ordinary 257/258 Thon Buri–Nam Tok–Thon Buri
*Ordinary 259/260 Thon Buri–Nam Tok–Thon Buri
*Ordinary 351/352 Thon Buri–Ratchaburi–Thon Buri
*Rapid 177/178 Thon Buri–Lang Suan–Thon Buri
*Commuter 919/920
,2,3,4,5Thon Buri–Salaya–Thon Buri
*
SRT Light Red Line services
1979 Taling Chan rail accident
The accident occurred at dawn on 21 August 1979. A congested Ratchaburi-Thon Buri train (No.165, now 352) approached the intersection around Taling Chan Junction and was collided by a freight train from Bang Sue Junction to
Padang Besar, due to having gone through a red signal. The freight train collided into the passenger train in the middle section and caused derailments for both trains. There were 51 deaths and 138 injured, the majority of the passengers being students and merchants coming for trade near Thon Buri Station. The accident was one of the most severe rail disasters in Thailand.
Gallery
File:Taling Chan SRT Red Line 01.jpg, New Platforms
File:Talingchan Junction.jpg, Taling Chan Junction in 2006, prior to refurbishment
References
* http://phanuphong002.wordpress.com/
* http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2532/D/166/51.PDF
* http://www.railway.co.th
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Railway stations in Bangkok