Uttaradit railway station

Uttaradit railway station is the main railway station for Uttaradit province. It is owned by the State Railway of Thailand and serves the Northern Line. Uttaradit railway station is located 485.17 kilometres (301.5 mi) from Bangkok railway station. It is also a Class 1 Station and is also the base for many maintenance subdivisions for the Northern Line.^[1]

Uttaradit อุตรดิตถ์
General information
Location	Samranruen Road, Tha It Subdistrict, Uttaradit City
Owned by	State Railway of Thailand
Line(s)	Northern Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	9
Construction
Parking	yes
Other information
Station code	อด.
History
Opened	1910; 114 years ago (1910)
Rebuilt	1951; 73 years ago (1951)
Services
Preceding station State Railway of Thailand Following station Wang Kaphi towards Bangkok (Hua Lamphong) or Krung Thep Aphiwat Northern Line Sila At towards Chiang Mai

History

The facade of Uttaradit station

The platform and sign of Uttaradit station

During 1905-1906 King Chulalongkorn planned to build a railway line from Bangkok-Chiang Mai and another from Uttaradit to Ban Krai then across the Mekong River to Luang Prabang. Thus a railway station was built here, and trees were cleared and the land was leveled to await the track-laying process, which happened later in 1907. In 1907, trains hauled rock-filled wagons in which the people saw every day. A railway station was therefore built in the forest cemetery of Wat Tha Thanon (now known as Uttaradit Station) in 1909 and was finished in 1910. The first Uttaradit Station was built in the Modernist Style of Jugendstil with a tower in the middle, designed and built by German architect Karl Siegfried Döhring.^[2] However, the tower was destroyed during World War II. The station was rebuilt after the war and opened for service once again in 1951. Due to an increase of train traffic, a new station had to be built 2.35 kilometres north and was finished in 1958, it was called Sila At Station.^[3][4]

Today Uttaradit Station is kept as an OTOP centre and there have been plans of expanding the station building into a department store.

Sub-divisions

These are the sub-divisions within the area of Uttaradit railway station:

1. Uttaradit Branch of Railcars Department
2. Uttaradit Branch Sector 3 of Mechanical Department
3. Uttaradit Branch of Locomotives Department
4. Uttaradit Locomotive Depot
5. Uttaradit Public Administration of the Ministry of Commerce
6. Uttaradit Branch of Railway Medical Unit
7. Uttaradit Branch Railway's Labour Union
8. Uttaradit Station Signal Control Box
9. Uttaradit Tourist Information Centre and Centre for OTOP Products

References

1. "Rotfaithai.com".
2. "รักษ์สถานี". The Cloud.
3. Ichiro, Kakizaki (2010). Ōkoku no tetsuro: tai tetsudō no rekishi. Kyoto: Kyōtodaigakugakujutsushuppankai. ISBN 978-4-87698-848-8.
4. Otohiro, Watanabe (2013). Tai kokutetsu yonsenkiro no tabi: shasō fūkei kanzen kiroku. Tokyo: Bungeisha. ISBN 978-4-286-13041-5.

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