I was in Ayuthaya and made some photos of this lovely old train station. In the evening we took the night train to Chiang Mai. The train station at Ayuthaya is actually a lovely building, although I am sure that most people did not see that. I love traveling by train in Thailand! Relaxed and it gives you the real & true feeling of traveling. If you like old Thai train stations then hurry up and visit them all as modernisation is destroying beautiful history! This beautiful train station was build in 1917 and named Krung Kao (the old city). In 1921 it was rebuild to what we see today and named Ayuthaya Station. This station serves both the Northern Line as the Northeast Line. But what will be the future of this train station? As there will be double-track and/or high speed trains to Chiang Mai, what will happen with this station? It seems that luckily there are people who want to keep it.
I love traveling by train, especially in Thailand where it is like traveling in time. It is like an open-air museum. Not only the trains itself but especially the train stations. They look like they have not changed since they build the first railroad lines in Thailand in 1889. I made a serie of train stations under the tag TRAIN STATIONS. Let's visit them before they all will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
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Remark : Photo was made in 2016.
Update 2021 : Until now on Google Satellite it does not show any construction work going on in or near Ayuthaya train station.
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