Makkasan Depot The Makkasan Depot and State Railway of Thailand (SRT) Maintenance Center area is in the center of the city (map). The entire area is slated to be redeveloped into a transport junction for the Airport Link Station for the new airport. The depot and maintenance operations would be moved to a location out of town. Also: Back in 2003, 2Bangkok.com proposed the area be Bangkok's new 'Central Park' |
Map of Makkasan
Depot & SRT Maintenance Center Part I: The grounds Part II: Miscellaneous locomotives Part III: Garden railway project trains Part IV: Repair building 1 Part V: Repair buildings 2 & 3 Part VI: Odds and Ends |
Makkasan Depot - Part V: Repair buildings 2 & 3
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Undercarriages of passenger bogies--it seems that most of the lighting in the buildings is ambient lighting from overhead skylights (#4 & 5 on the map).
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Offices inside the repair buildings
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Interior of a gutted locomotive
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Locomotive driver's console
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Passenger bogies undergoing reconditioning
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Another rolling segment of tracks between repair buildings.
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Above and below: Things being repainted
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Above and below: Passenger bogies up on jacks and without undercarriages
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Have you seen the round windows in the tops of the depot buildings from the expressway? Above are the round windows from the inside of the building.
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One of the many machining devices in the buildings