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Feb 16, 2025

What Vietnam can learn from other high-speed rail projects

Vietnam has an ambitious plan to build a high-speed railway. Here is what Vietnam can learn from the Laos-China Railway, the Bangkok-Nong Khai High-Speed Railway, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, and the Mumbai–Ahmedabad HSR.

James Clark

VietnamVietnam

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Feb 02, 2025

Technology contenders for the Vietnam high-speed railway

A list of countries that have offered to share high-speed railway technology with Vietnam.

James Clark

RailwaysRailways

Oct 16, 2024

Southeast Asia Railways Report (2024)

Trans-Borneo high-speed railway, a year of high-speed rail in Java, the unlikely city with two international railway stations, Thailand's mixed-gauge expansion continues, and Vietnam's ambitious North-South high-speed railway plan.

James Clark

ThailandThailand

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Mar 14, 2023

The case for a train to Koh Samui

A combined road/rail bridge could put an end to Samui Airport's stranglehold on the island.

James Clark

ThailandThailand

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Feb 21, 2023

Thoughts on Thai trains while waiting for the Chiang Mai-Bangkok airlift

The Bangkok-Chiang Mai air route flourishes while there is no plan for the slow Northern Line train.

James Clark

VietnamVietnam

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Oct 03, 2022

Premium

The stagnation of Vietnam's railways

The perpetually proposed North-South Express Railway, reduced and suspended services in the north, and the relocation of Hanoi station to outside the city centre.

James Clark