A high-speed train model is on display at Chiang Rak Noi station to promote the project. (Bangkok Post file photo)Thailand and China will hold talks with Laos about connecting the high-speed train system from Nong Khai to Vientiane. Ministry sources said the meeting decided the Bangkok-Nong Khai high-speed train project should efficiently connect the high-speed network in Laos to the nation’s capital. The piling work of the first phase of the Sino-Thai high-speed rail network linking Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima, worth 179 billion baht, kicked off on Dec 21 last year. The section stretching from Kaeng Khoi in Saraburi to Nakhon Ratchasima is likely to open for bidding in July.

Source: Bangkok Post February 10, 2018 23:47 UTC