THAILAND’s Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning has released a 20-year masterplan for rail development worth more than Baht 2.7 trillion ($US 81.57bn).

BANGKOK Expressway and Metro together with C H Karnchang have awarded a contract to a consortium of Siemens and ST Electronics, Thailand, to supply trains and equip and maintain two extensions of the Blue Line.

THAILAND’s government has signed two contracts worth a combined Baht 5.2bn ($US 157.1m) with Chinese state enterprises for the first phase of the Bangkok - Laos high-speed rail project.

BANGKOK Expressway Metro and C H Karnchang have awarded a contract to Thales to provide an automatic fare collection system for two extensions to the Blue Line which will have a total of 19 stations.

BOMBARDIER has secured two contracts to supply a total of 72 Innovia Monorail 300 trains for two new monorail lines in Bangkok.

A missing link in Bangkok’s metro network was bridged on August 11, when Thailand’s prime minister Mr Prayut Chan-o-cha inaugurated the 1.2km extension of the Blue Line from Bang Sue to an interchange with the Purple Line at Tao Poon.

THE Thai cabinet has approved a Baht 101bn ($US 3bn) project to double the length of the Purple Line of the Bangkok metro by adding 23.6km from Tao Poon south to Rat Burana.

AFTER numerous delays, Thailand’s cabinet gave the go-ahead on July 11 for the construction of the country’s first high-speed line, which will link Bangkok with Nakhon Ratchasima.

THAILAND’s National Environment Board (NEB) has approved the first phase of the Bangkok - Chiang Mai high-speed line, after an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

STATE Railway of Thailand (SRT) launched a tender on May 9 for a contract to supply 50 metre-gauge diesel-electric locomotives.