The opening ceremony for Chiang Mai Railway Station took place on 1st January 1921, at the same time as the opening of the Northern Railway to Chiang Mai. During the Second World War, Allied aircraft bombed this station on 21st December 1943.
The Vientiane (Khamsavath) Railway Station is set to open in April 2024 for shuttle trains crossing over the border from
Any railway station in Thailand that has a scheduled train stopping for ten minutes or more must have a platform
Lampang Rajabhat University together with the State Railway of Thailand have organised a special travel package on the historic railway line from 13-16 December 2022. The route will be Bangkok-Lampang-Lamphun-Chiang Mai-Bangkok.
This is very interesting to me. I lived in Bangkok during the 1960s and wrote a fictional novel titled “Night Train to Chiangmai.”
Interesting being as I once took the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in ten years ago in 2013 and it was a pretty amazing experience even though I’ve heard over the years since that the trains can be unsafe