FOR more than a century, the Hua Lamphong Railway Station has greeted and sent off tens of thousands of commuters each day in the heart of Bangkok’s Chinatown.
The State Railway Workers' Union of Thailand is mounting fierce resistance against the Transport Ministry's plan to shut down Hua Lamphong station, which has served as Bangkok's main rail hub for 105 years.
The Fine Arts Department (FAD) will register Bangkok's Hua Lamphong railway station as a national heritage in a bid to shield it from development plans.
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