Engineers at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) are working on a prototype of a luxury 25-seater rail carriage, which will be thoroughly track-tested before entering service with the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) late next year.
The project is part of the Transport Ministry’s Thai First Policy, which seeks to incorporate more homegrown hardware into Thailand’s mass-transit network, said deputy SRT governor, Siripong Preutthipan.
The project received 32 million baht in funding, 25 million baht of which came from the Programme Management Unit for Competitiveness, while the rest…
