Chumphon railway station
Chumphon ชุมพร | |||||||||||
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| Location | Nawamin Ruamjai Road, Tha Taphao Subdistrict, Chumphon City | ||||||||||
| Owned by | State Railway of Thailand | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Southern Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 10 10 (depot) | ||||||||||
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| Station code | ชพ. | ||||||||||
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Chumphon railway station is a railway station in Tha Taphao Subdistrict, Chumphon City, and is the main railway station for Chumphon Province. It is a class 1 railway station, 468.534 km (291.1 mi) from Thon Buri railway station. It is the first fueling station from Bangkok, and thus all trains going further south must stop here. Chumphon is also the site of a locomotive depot.
There are two preserved steam locomotives at the station:
- E class no. 178 (North British Locomotive Company (NBL) 21810/1919)
- Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) 4-6-2 no. 229 (BLW 58675/1926)