Thailand wants to expand Rail network to link India

Thailand wants to expand Rail network to link India

Thailand’s military junta has said that it wants to widen the country’s railway tracks and expand the network to form transport links with important markets in India and China. The chief of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) General Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the NCPO’s working plan includes initiatives to repair existing one-metre wide tracks and construct new 1.435 metre wide tracks in parallel. The new wider tracks will also be built on whichever routes are necessary to open up rail connections with China, India and other regional countries, he was quoted as saying by local media.