Hat Yai Junction Railway Station

Hat Yai Junction
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Location Rotfai Road, Hat Yai Subdistrict, Hat Yai City, Songkhla
Owned by State Railway of Thailand
Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Line(s) Southern Line
Platforms 6
Construction
Parking yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code หใ.
Services
Preceding station   State Railway of Thailand   Following station
toward Hua Lamphong
Southern Line
TerminusSouthern Line
Padang Besar Branch
toward Butterworth
TerminusSouthern Line
Song Khla Branch (defunt)
Talat Hat Yai Halt
toward Songkhla
Preceding station   Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Intercity)   Following station
TerminusNorth-South Line
towards Woodlands

Hat Yai Junction is an international railway junction and a Class 1 Railway Station for the State Railway of Thailand in the centre of Hat Yai City, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The station is located 928.585 km (577.0 mi) from Bangkok's Thon Buri Railway Station and serves as a junction for the mainline Southern Line towards Pattani, Yala and Sungai Kolok (border point with Malaysia at Rantau Panjang) and the Butterworth, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Line (border point with Malaysia at Padang Besar). The station also includes a large locomotive depot adjacent to the station.

Hat Yai Junction encouraged Hat Yai's economic boom and growth, making the city larger than the province's capital Songkhla.

History

Originally, the station was named U-Taphao Junction and was located to the north of the current station, also served as a junction for the Hat Yai-Songkhla Line. However, the junction often got hit by floods and was moved to the present location at Hat Yai Junction. In 1978, the line from Hat Yai to Songkhla City closed down, leaving the junction to be only for the mainline to Sungai-Kolok and the branch to Butterworth.

Since the start of 2013, there have been plans to rebuild the line back to Songkhla City.

Services

There are 24 trains serving Hat Yai Junction daily, 12 each way. All types of trains must stop at this station. The trains are of the following:

Terrorist attacks

Hat Yai Junction has been a target for the "Land Separation Movement" (South Thailand insurgency).

Sources

    Coordinates: 7°00′14″N 100°28′03″E / 7.00389°N 100.46750°E / 7.00389; 100.46750

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