24 March 2010

Prestigious Train Hall in Bangkok Travel


Prestigious Train Hall in Bangkok Travel

Today Bankok Travel takes you to Prestigious Train Hall located in Chatujak garden. You can travel to there easily by many numbers of regular buses and air-conditioned ones such as number 44, 8, 145, air-conditioned number 27, and 502 from Ladphrao road. You can also travel there by the regular buses number 28, from Central plaza of Ladphrao branch.

The former old building of state railway of Thailand, it was built about 30 years ago, to keep king Rama VII’s royal trains and the locomotives of historical significance. Later, it was renovated and converted to The Prestigious Train Hall in order to be a place of display and conservation of railway-related stories. Inside the hall, there are displays of steam driven locomotive, Hansley diesel locomotive, Japanese army’s patrol van since world war II, an imitative model of Thailand’s first aircraft carrier warship Chakkri Naruebet, antique car Fiat Polino, and the carcass of two engine airplane of Japanese army in world war II, which were quite significant to the Thai railway history.

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