Year | 2024 |
Date | 26-Jul |
Volume | 233 |
Issue | 4,748 |
Page | 207 |
Category | Railway |
Part | 1 |
Title | A Small Clearing in the Jungle: Phuket's First Railway |
Author | Colin Standish |
Notes | Introduces rail travel to Thailand's Tiger Kingdom. The clearance, jungle at the end of the road, sire cleared and levelled, support pillars in position, the curved mould, first beam cast on site, released from the mould, track bed completed, sleepers cut to length, laying the sleepers, drilling the outside rail, rail and fishplate drilling jigs, hook bolt jig, spacers tie bolts and spares |