Fate of 105-year-old train station up in the air

Historic landmark: Passengers waiting for a train on a platform at the Hua Lamphong Railway Station in Bangkok. — Bloomberg

FOR more than a century, the Hua Lamphong Railway Station has greeted and sent off tens of thousands of commuters each day in the heart of Bangkok’s Chinatown.

But it could soon be time for travellers to bid farewell to the historic central terminal, as Thailand’s Transport Ministry mulls over decommissioning it to ease traffic congestion and looks to the new Bang Sue Grand Station to serve as the capital’s main train terminus.