Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov

timmydownawell · Post by **timmydownawell** » Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:40 pm

From Train Cambodia on FB:
If you plan to trake train in the next couple of days you should reconsider it. I took the train for the first time...everything was smooth since we left Phnom Penh until we had a frontal crash with a containers train coming into our directions just after Kampot. Hopefully trains go slow but still was quite scary. I don't get how they can manage to do this...1 way+2 trains = big sh*t for sure. We would have to wait 4 hours until a wagon come from Phnom Penh to pull us back until Kampot station. A chance I had a moto with me...anyway good luck, they say will take until next week to fix this.

Pantsdragon · Post by **Pantsdragon** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:44 am

Glad that it appears there were no injuries.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:14 pm

Trains collide in Kampot province
20 November 2017
- A passenger train rear-ended a cargo train in Kampot province yesterday, according to local police.
No one was injured in the crash.

Chief of staff of the district police Chhun Chhoeun said that the trains were going in the same direction when the accident occurred.
“These two trains were going from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville when the passenger train rear-ended the other,” he said.

Hong Sarann, Boeung Touk commune police chief, said that the accident was caused by the fact that the first train used its brakes abruptly and the second one could not control its speed.
“There was no one injured from the collision. It damaged both trains, but slightly. It dented one carriage and two wheels,” he said.
Khmer Times

timmydownawell · Post by **timmydownawell** » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:08 am

It's kinda surprising this happened barely two weeks after Royal Railway posted on their FB page they have introduced new train signalling (i.e. traffic lights) to improve safety. Even if the article is correct, how were they so travelling close together in the first place?

Moose · Post by **Moose** » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:10 am

It really is amazing how many accidents Royal Railway has has since operations started last year. Anyone know the figures?

Seems a bi-weekly occurrence!

AndyKK · Post by **AndyKK** » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:41 am

I was thinking how the youth is for the Khmer children, such as play time for them, early education. We were lucky and had train sets, so learnt control and the likes.
Now scalextric was a different matter, when racing! How many times did the cars leave the tracks.

willyhilly · Post by **willyhilly** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:11 am

The Toll Group have done well with a bucket of taxpayers money, was it 400 million?

Barang chgout · Post by **Barang chgout** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:23 am

I thought Toll were long out of it after losing 100mill.

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