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Uttaradit railway station is the main railway station for Uttaradit province. It is owned by the State Railway of Thailand and serves the Northern Line. Uttaradit railway station is located 485.17 kilometres (301.5 mi) from Bangkok railway station. It is also a Class 1 Station and is also the base for many maintenance subdivisions for the Northern Line.




History



During 1905-1906 King Chulalongkorn planned to build a railway line from Bangkok-Chiang Mai and another from Uttaradit to Ban Krai then across the Mekong River to Luang Prabang. Thus a railway station was built here, and trees were cleared and the land was leveled to await the track-laying process, which happened later in 1907. In 1907, trains hauled rock-filled wagons in which the people saw every day. A railway station was therefore built in the forest cemetery of Wat Tha Thanon (now known as Uttaradit Station) in 1909 and was finished in 1910. The first Uttaradit Station was built in the Modernist Style of Jugendstil with a tower in the middle, designed and built by German architect Karl Siegfried Döhring. However, the tower was destroyed during World War II. The station was rebuilt after the war and opened for service once again in 1951. Due to an increase of train traffic, a new station had to be built 2.35 kilometres north and was finished in 1958, it was called Sila At Station.
Today Uttaradit Station is kept as an OTOP centre and there have been plans of expanding the station building into a department store.




Sub-divisions


These are the sub-divisions within the area of Uttaradit railway station:

Uttaradit Branch of Railcars Department
Uttaradit Branch Sector 3 of Mechanical Department
Uttaradit Branch of Locomotives Department
Uttaradit Locomotive Depot
Uttaradit Public Administration of the Ministry of Commerce
Uttaradit Branch of Railway Medical Unit
Uttaradit Branch Railway's Labour Union
Uttaradit Station Signal Control Box
Uttaradit Tourist Information Centre and Centre for OTOP Products




References

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• Uttaradit railway station
• Uttaradit province
• Uttaradit
• Sila At railway station
• State Railway of Thailand
• Wang Kaphi railway station
• Ban Dan railway station
• Tron railway station
• Rai Oi railway station
• Pang Ton Phueng railway station