A photo of a run-down old Thai train next to a fancy, shiny new Malaysian locomotive has sparked shame, laughs and lots and lots of comments on social media this week.
The photo, posted to Jaroensook Pone Limbanchongkit’s personal Facebook account from Padang Besar, a town on the Malaysian side of Thailand-Malaysia border, was widely believed to be of a Malaysian high-speed bullet train next to an outdated (but still in use) Thai diesel train, reported Manager.
In a thread on a Facebook page for Thai train fans, however, posters said that the Malaysian train is not a high-speed bullet train but simply a Chinese long-distance train that moves at 140kph. They could even identify that this train travels from the border to Kuala Lumpur and ends at Johor Bahru.
No matter what route that newer train travels, we’d rather ride in it than the old Thai carriage.
