Train operations resume in Thai South

BANGKOK, May 7 (TNA) - Trains for southern route resumed operations Monday following almost three days of suspension after the derailment of 19-bogies-cargo train in Nakhon Si Thammarat province’s Ron Phibun district last Saturday. Staffs of the State Railway of Thailand took nearly three days to remove the carriages off the rail track. The carriages are now kept safely one meter away from the track which was repaired and reopened, not long after the completion of the mission to salvage the derailed train. A train No. 41 heading from southern Yala province to Bangkok was the first train to resume operation today. Jane Boonsue, chief of the Civil Engineering Department of the State Railway of Thailand, said that the state enterprise would overhaul the rail track system next year by replacing 80-pound sleepers with 100-pound ones. He said the Saturday’s derailment was caused by heavy rain that continued for days and led to soil subsidence. (TNA)