Following an accident, safety audits were ordered, and rail services were reduced.
3 January 2024 at 12:58PUBLISHED
UPDATED: 19:12 on January 3, 2024.
According to Surapong Piyachote, the deputy transport minister, some of the wheels on Bright Line monorail trains were broken, and their use has been put on hold pending further inspections.
Before all carriages were put back into company on Wednesday, he claimed that the operator of Golden Line, Eastern Bangkok Monorail Co., had been instructed to conduct thorough safety assessments on every train.
On Tuesday night, a train’s link vehicle fell off onto Thepharak Road in Samut Prakan, bounced, and then collided with another vehicle. On Tuesday evening, the operator blamed the falling vehicle on bad ball bearings.
On Wednesday night, Mr. Surapong announced that the production of a particular batch of guide wheels was flawed and that their use had been soon halted.
He said,” It’s still unclear whether the temperature or the ball joints caused the vehicle to fall off.” ” A comprehensive examination may be conducted.
” I assume the issue also has an impact on different tires. To find out if it has to do with heat or ball joints, a thorough investigation is required.
The coach wheels are expected to last 300,000 hours, but according to him, they have only been in use for 60, 000 hours thus far.
Before each and every Yellow Line train was put back into service on Wednesday, he had instructed transportation officials to collaborate with Eastern Bangkok Rail to carefully assess their health. Services had to be reduced to once every 30 days as a result, as opposed to the usual 5 to 10 minutes.
The company intervals today are more. The Transport Ministry must ensure the highest level of service health, according to Mr. Surapong.
Suriya Jungrungreangkit, the secretary of transportation, claimed that on Wednesday afternoon, he had met with EBM representatives to explain safety precautions.
Mr. Suriya claimed the incident was caused by broken ball bearings and that the vehicle manufacturer, Alstom, was carrying out a thorough research into the pertinent parts at an ensuing press conference to release the community.
Six Golden Series trains passed safety inspections and were sent out for service on Wednesday, according to Mr. Surapong at the same press conference. To eventually boost train frequencies, additional products in the fleet of 30 railways were being checked and would be deployed once they were approved.
The Golden Line will provide free services to travellers, and ordinary service intervals of 5 to 10 minutes should begin by Monday, he said, even though the investigations are still valid from Wednesday to Saturday.
BSR JV Consortium, a joint walk between three enormous SET-listed companies—Bangalore Mass Transit System Group Holding, which owns 75 % of the company, Sino-Thinan Engineering and Construction, and Ratch Group, an important energy producer—is the parent company of EBM.
The Pink Line rail, on which a four-kilometer section of electric wire bridge became dislodged and fell onto Tiwanon Road in Nonthaburi on December 24, is operated by another division of the same company.
The Pink Line runs between north Bangkok and Nonthaburi, while the Golden Line connects northeast Bangkok to Samut Prakan. The railways used on both outlines were produced in China by CRRC Puzhen Bombardier Transportation Systems, a cooperative venture between the two companies with bases in Canada and Nanjing.
Surapong Piyachote, the assistant transport minister, speaks with investigators. On Tuesday evening, he was present at the crash image with Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit. Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, a picture
The Phawana place above Lat Phrao Road is where a Golden Line rail train stops. ( File image: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul )