How to travel across Thailand with the excellent Thai railways? The state railway of Thailand let you reach easily and comfortably the major cities of the country: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Trang, Surat Thani, Kanchanaburi, Nongkhai to go to Laos and Vientiane and even Malaysia with Penang and Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. 

The state railway of Thailand operates three different train classes.

First Class contains one small private air conditioned compartment for two persons. The compartment consists of two beds, one upper and one lower.

Second Class Fan or air-conditioned coaches are available in either seat or sleeper form with 36 seats. 

Third Class hard wooden bench seats. There is no advance booking for this class. 

Overnight train sleepers: First class sleepers consist of two full size bunk beds. Second class sleepers are assembled from two facing seats to form the bottom or lower bunk. The upper bunk is a pulled down and unlocked when the beds are made up. All beds use clean cotton sheets, pillows with cases and laundered, sealed, towel-like blankets.

Beds are set up by the train staff at around 9:00 pm and stored away again around 07:00 am.

Safety: Train policemen are very efficient and patrol all train every hours or so. But as any public transport it is always safer to keep an eye on your valuable.

There are 2 daily trains from Bangkok to Trang and 2 trains back from Trang to BKK

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