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[Lakegeneve]

As mentioned previously, the SRT had sought funds to purchase 7 new sets of rolling stock. Well things move quickly when a 2nd airport is in the mix, Cabinet met of Tuesday and approved 4.2 billion for the SRT to purchase 7 four car sets to be delivered by 2014.

Let's just hope the SRT can actually order the new rolling stock in a timely manner.

Edited by Lakegeneve, 2012-05-17 10:40:37.

[TheCure]

TheCure, on 2012-05-13 15:31:38, said:

Lakegeneve, on 2012-05-10 01:27:07, said:

Of greater immediate concern is that the spare parts issue has arisen again - this time in respect of disk brakes and wheel bearings - with the SRT-ET seemingly not keeping enough inventory and not liaising with Siemens in due time ie. not ordering months ago. This means that 3 trains are currently out of service (2 Cityline & 1 Express) out of the total rolling stock of 9 (5 Cityline and 4 Express), ie. 1/3 of the rolling stock. The Siemens 2 year warranty of the current 9 sets recently expired and the SRT is seeking to renew the warranty by another 2 years.

As previously mentioned, the SRT has been given funds to purchase two more sets of rolling stock by 2014 to help with maintenance of rolling stock but ideally it needs 7 more sets in total to implement a more frequent headway. SRT is going request funds for the extra 5 sets but it needs to sort of a number of issues first.

There has been much discussion in the thai language press in recent days regarding the overall culture of SRT management, operational issues and staffing problems of the ARL.
See, http://www.prachacha...atid=&subcatid= & http://www.manager.c...D=9550000056563

Pax numbers are still around 3500-3800 a day for the Express and 46K-48K a day for the Cityline. (March figures)

It is only a matter of time before a major accident happens on the ARL.
The track was built by some shoddy Chinese contractor which has long left Thailand, and SRT has no  money   to do the necessary maintenance on the track  and the rolling stock.
I have never used it, because it is not convenient for me, and most probably never will.

Mark my words