Hat Yai Junction railway station


Hat Yai Junction is an international railway junction and a Class 1 railway station for the State Railway of Thailand in the center of Hat Yai City, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The station is located from Bangkok's Thon Buri railway station and serves as a junction for the mainline Southern Line towards Pattani, Yala and Sungai Kolok and the Butterworth, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Line. The station also includes a large locomotive depot adjacent to the station.
Hat Yai Junction encouraged Hat Yai's economic boom and growth, making the city larger than the province's capital Songkhla.

History

Originally, the station was named U-Taphao Junction and was located to the north of the current station. The old station also served as a junction for the Hat Yai-Songkhla Line. However, the junction often got hit by floods and was moved to the present location at Hat Yai Junction. In 1978, the line from Hat Yai to Songkhla City closed down, leaving the junction to be only for the mainline to Sungai-Kolok and the branch to Butterworth.
Since the start of 2013, there have been plans to rebuild the line back to Songkhla City.

Services

There are 24 trains serving Hat Yai Junction daily, 12 each way. All types of trains must stop at this station. The trains are of the following:
Hat Yai Junction has been a target for the "Land Separation Movement".
Hat Yai Junction railway station is the setting of at least 2 Thai pops, including by Narathip Kanchanawat of Chatree band, it has been popular since 1980, with new recordings by many performers, and Thai protest song, titled by Jew Khonkhianphleng in 1994.