Ban Pin railway station
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 | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (June 2018) |
Ban Pin บ้านปิน | |||||||||||
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 Station building built in the Bavarian timber frame style | |||||||||||
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| Location | Ban Pin Subdistrict, Long District, Phrae | ||||||||||
| Owned by | State Railway of Thailand | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Northern Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | บป. | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 15 June 1914 | ||||||||||
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Ban Pin railway station is a railway station in Ban Pin Sub-district, Long District, Phrae Province, Thailand. It is a class 2 railway station 563.865 km from Bangkok railway station. It is on the Northern Line of the State Railway of Thailand. The station opened in June 1914, following the Northern Line extension from Huai Mae Ta to Ban Pin. The line continued to Pha Khan in 1915.
The station's design and construction is that of a Bavarian timber frame building, a product of the German engineers who worked on building the Northern Line.[1] It is the only railway station in Thailand in the Bavarian style.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Mekloy, Pongpet (14 June 2018). "Rediscovering Phrae". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ "Baan Pin Train Station". Tourism Thailand. Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ Muangthong, Manee (8 August 2019). "แอ่วแพร่ประตูสู่ล้านนา งดงามวิถีชีวิตวัฒนธรรม" [Visit Phrae the gateway to Lanna beautiful of lifestyle and culture]. Thairath. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
Further reading
[edit]- Ichirō, Kakizaki (2010). Ōkoku no tetsuro: tai tetsudō no rekishi. Kyōto: Kyōtodaigakugakujutsushuppankai. ISBN 978-4-87698-848-8
- Otohiro, Watanabe (2013). Tai kokutetsu yonsenkiro no tabi: shasō fūkei kanzen kiroku. Tōkyō: Bungeisha. ISBN 978-4-286-13041-5
