Trip plan was set as two days to stay in this city.
I had good time in here on my schedule.
Information
The station is located 254.5 km from Bangkok Terminal Station.This is the terminal station of Thai Eastern Line. Here is at about 6 km distance from Cambodia-Thai Border. However, the railway track continue up to the border.
I visited here in November 2018. I saw on the net article that the international railway between Thailand and Cambodia has resumed in April 2019. I will revisit to this area someday in order to look railway's border line.
Time Table (Bangkok - Aranyaprathet)
Departure : 6:40 (BKK 12:05) , 13:55 (BKK 19:40)
Arrival : (BKK 5:55)11:35 , (BKK 13:05)17:35
Day 1
Visited to Aranyaprathet station at 9:30 am.State of the station
Walked from entrance in front of the station to the platform.
There are several tuktuks, motorcycles and food stalls in front of the station.
That's all. The area around the station is a very peaceful landscape with lots of vacant land. The blue sky is felt so wide.
Train arrived
No. 275 train arrived at 11:37. It is about 2 minutes delay from scheduled time. I was lucky because I expected a delay of over 30 minutes.
After arrival of the train, changing the direction of the motor unit will be carried out. This is a scene that can only be seen at the Terminal Station.
Trains for Bangkok leave in about 2 hours. During the time, Let's look around in the platform.
Walking through in the train
The number of customer car is six. The motor unit is located completely out of the platform. There is no shortage of platform length relative to the train. I feel like Thai-ness from seeing this kind of sight.
Then, get in from the first car and walk to end in the train. This train has basically three types of seats.
Seats that looks comfortable.
It seems could be recline seat. I did not check them.
It seems to be solid seat that has no function. I recognize that this is standard seats in local train of Thailand.
The seats in 6th car that is last car of the train.
There are reserve seats at the end. It is said on the board "Reserve for Monks and Novices".
Train departure
Took a position ahead of the train and wait for the departure. The train departed at 13:55 on time. The staff of this Railway Line is excellent.
Day 2
Train depart in the early morning
Visited to the station at 6:30 am. The weather is fine.
I had only one chance to taking video for morning train departure on this stay. The train left about 5 minutes behind the scheduled time.
End of the railway track on eastern line
After watching the departure train, headed for Rong Kluea Market. There is an end of the railway line in this site. That is the border between Thailand and Cambodia.Looking the direction of Aranyaprathet station.
Looking the direction of Cambodia border.
Station for international trains.
The gate closed on the Cambodian side.
Train depart in the afternoon
This time I took video from near the railway crossing on the train heading direction. This is also near the entrance of Station One Hotel. The room rate is 900 B a night, include breakfast. FYI.Train arrive in the evening
I wait for the No. 279 train that could not be taken video the day before. This train was delayed about 20 minutes. Unfortunately sunset has already done.
And I plan to leave for Bangkok in the early morning of the next day by this train.
