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Chitralada railway station

Chitralada railway station

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This article is about Royal use only. For the adjacent passenger use, see Ramathibodi Hospital railway halt.

Chitralada railway station or Suan Chitralada royal railway station (Thai: สถานีรถไฟจิตรลดา, สถานีรถไฟหลวงสวนจิตรลดา) is a railway station in Thailand, located on Sawankhalok Rd, Suan Chitlada Subdistrict, Dusit District, Bangkok.

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It is a special railway station that only serves the royal family when traveling by train.[1] It is located on the side of Sawankhalok Rd, opposite the Chitralada Royal Villa, 3.29 km (2 mi) from Hua Lamphong (Bangkok railway station), considered in the middle between Yommarat and Ramathibodi Hospital halts.

Chitralada railway station was originally a wooden building built in the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). Later, in the year 1921, during the reign of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI), the construction of a new station was a single-storey brick building. There is a dome that was built according to the Italian Renaissance architecture to replace the original wooden building.[2][3]

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    "คำถวายชัยมงคล สำหรับเมืองนครลำปาง" (PDF). ราชกิจจานุเบกษา. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
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    pr.railway (2017-05-03). "สถานีรถไฟหลวงจิตรลดา" [Chitralada Royal Railway Station]. facebook (in Thai).
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    "ย้อนอดีตสถานีรถไฟหลวงจิตรลดา" [Retrace Chitralada Royal Railway Station]. Channel 9 MCOT HD (in Thai). 2015-10-15.
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