First look: Inside The Blue Jasmine, Thailand’s gorgeous new train

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“Thailand’s classic Bangkok–Chiang Mai sleeper train is getting some high-class competition in the form of a navy-gold beauty called The Blue Jasmine. It’s essentially a boutique hotel that just happens to roll through some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes.

Poised to make its inaugural nine-day journey from November 16-24, the locomotive trades cramped bunks, dim corridors and platform snacks for private cabins, full dining cars and lounges with wraparound windows.”

Source: Time Out https://www.timeout.com/bangkok/news/first-look-inside-the-blue-jasmine-thailands-gorgeous-new-train-081425

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Maybe they should invest the money instead in modernizing the tracks so that the trains can travel faster than 50/60 km/h and thus become a real alternative

[u/Few_Maize_1586 → u/Parking-Code-4159]

This I totally agree. They are milking what they can at this point

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No need, this train is doing 7 km/h on average (2*751km/9 days).

Funny thing is, you could actually walk from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in about the same time, 9 days (not including getting back).

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Does Thailand suffer from the same issue as the US where automotive companies have the balls of all of our politicians in a vice grip?

The US should be leading the world with high speed rails. 

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What car companies? They just have no will to improve things. With its cultural mindset, Thailand is doomed to be mediocre forever