Train Loses Track

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Cambodia News, (Battambang): A cargo train fell off the track at Kok Trop Village, Tamern Commune, Tmorkol District, Battambang Province, at around midday on October 15, 2022.
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Some heavy machinary was called upon to get it back on track. Nobody was injured in the accident.
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That's a pretty old railway line. I wonder in what year they stopped using steel railway sleepers.


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are of Cambodia’s railway tracks like that?

If so, I’d have second thoughts getting on any train in the Kingdom of Wonder.
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Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:00 pm That's a pretty old railway line. I wonder in what year they stopped using steel railway sleepers.


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Steel sleepers are still widely made and used, they can have advantages for routes like this.
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How the f**k to you tip a train over that barely goes above 30mph?

I reckon the state of the tracks and the same as the roads.
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newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:29 am are of Cambodia’s railway tracks like that?

If so, I’d have second thoughts getting on any train in the Kingdom of Wonder.
No, most of them have concrete sleepers. This is likely a siding.
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There’s a lot of water about, and the gravel looks to be on a slight gradient between the rails. Recent flooding? It looks as though the whole section is unstable, slid sideways under the mass of the train and unstable ground.
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