What is the possibility of a rail link to South-East Asia and Singapore?

July 19, 2019, 12:27 PM
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The idea of a rail link to Singapore comes up every so often. Myanmar railway lines are meter-gauge. So are the railways in Thailand and Malaysia. So the value of such a link for freight transportation is greatly diminished by the need for transshipment at some point to get to the main BG network in India. Furthermore, in Burma the southern section of the railway network is not connected to the northern one, there being a gap at Moulmein, so that a bridge would have to be converted, or a ferry system used from Martaban.

This problem turns up with connections from Bangladesh to the branches going to Mandalay; otherwise, connecting with lines going to Pathein pose other problems as that is another separate section of Myanmar railways. Going further south, the link between the Myanmar network and the Thai network no longer exists, as most of the lines laid down by the Japanese during the war (the infamous “Death Railway”) were ripped up a long time back. So this link is something that would take a lot of work to bring to life.

Source – IFRCA.org

 

 

 

 
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