Bangkok,Thailand Railways

1st December 2005

Here are some pics from my adventure overseas. Bangkok,dirty,smelly and some of the worst traffic in the world BUT home of the new MRT Subway and Sky train. When i was staying in Bangkok i used the Sky train most of the time. This was fanstastic. It had no timetable,it just ran every 4 mins all day and night, it stopped at 12am and started at 6am. It was clean,fast and very well organised. What would take 45 mins in a taxi would take 10 mins by sky train. While here also i used the underground MRT, again this was the same as the sky train but under ground. The trains even looked the same as they were made by Siemen, the only difference being the colour of the seats. The Thai government plans to build another 7 underground lines and 2 sky train lines as one is being extended at the moment. The line i was staying on ran from Mo Chit to On Nuts, which was great as this line went to all the tourist attractions including the weekend markets,night markets and big shopping centers. For anyone going to Bangkok, i would ditch using a taxi or car and use the MRT or BTS Sky Train

640x480 IMGP0993.JPG	640x480 IMGP0996.JPG	640x480 IMGP0998.JPG	Sky Train from my hotel room 640x480 IMGP1006.JPG
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The reason for the sky train 640x480 IMGP1047.JPG	640x480 IMGP1049.JPG	640x480 IMGP1050.JPG	640x480 IMGP1051.JPG
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480x640 IMGP1160.JPG	640x480 IMGP1161.JPG	the dirty local train 640x480 IMGP1162.JPG	640x480 IMGP1164.JPG
640x480 IMGP1165.JPG	handy for a short trip 640x480 IMGP1166.JPG	640x480 IMGP1181.JPG	Cheap to run 480x640 IMGP1186.JPG
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