Bangkok Skytrain

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Skytrain is the elevated metro system in Bangkok, Thailand, operated by Bangkok Transit System (BTS). The Skytrain is separate from the underground Bangkok Subway.

Ploen Chit road with Skytrain tracks above it

The Bangkok system was originally projected to use the same technology as the Vancouver SkyTrain, but it was cancelled in 1992 by 'political interference'. This first Skytrain project is sometimes referred as the Lavalin Skytrain. A second project was started based upon unrelated Siemens technology, but confusingly retained the name Skytrain. The first two Bangkok lines were opened in 1999.

At two bridges of the Chao Phraya river built in the early 1990s the foundations for the Lavalin skytrain were added. The one at the Taksin bridge has now been used to built the extension of the Silom line to Thonburi, which might get finished in 2005. The ones at the Memorial bridge remain unused.

The extension of the Sukhumvit line to Samut Prakan is at an advanced stage of planning; other extensions have been discussed, but have not yet been approved.

Table of contents

1 Station List

1.1 Sukhumvit Line
1.2 Silom Line

2 External links

Station List

Sukhumvit Line

Mo Chit Station (Interchange to Subway Blue Line Chatuchak station)
Saphan Khwai Station
Senaruam Station (planned)
Ari Station
Sanam Pao Station
Victory Monument Station
Phaya Thai Station
Ratchathewi Station
Siam Station (Interchange to Silom Line)
Chit Lom Station
Phloen Chit Station
Nana Station
Asok Station (Interchange to Subway Blue Line Sukhumvit station)
Phrom Phong
Thong Lo Station
Ekkamai Station
Phra Khanong Station
On Nut Station

Silom Line

National Stadium Station
Siam Station (Interchange to Sukhumvit Line)
Ratchadamri Station
Sala Daeng Station (Interchange to Subway Blue Line Silom station)
Chong Nonsi Station
Suksawittaya Station (planned)
Surasak Station
Saphan Taksin Station