Royal Railway Station Phnom Penh

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Phnom Penh Royal railway station is a railway station in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is located next University of Health Science and the National University of Management and the Canadian embassy. As of February 2014, the station is only used for sporadic goods transport, chiefly oil-tank ...

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The Government of Cambodia and Royal Railway are very pleased to announce that the Track and Bridge upgrades will commence in this month.
we will update you on the work progress and give you notice as when we can return to a normal schedule in January 2019.
The upgrades will be Between Battambang and Serei Saophoan and Battambang and Pursat.
The upgrades will include 5 bridges being rebuilt, ballasting, Tamping of track.
It will result in fast safer Track speeds so a much quicker and smooth train journey

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Phnom Penh Royal railway station is a railway station in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is located next University of Health Science and the National University of Management and the Canadian embassy. As of February 2014, the station is only used for sporadic goods transport, chiefly oil-tank trains. This station was renovated and formally reopened October 22, 2010. However, the station buildings and platforms are no longer accessible to the public, given that there are currently no passenger services.

Construction

Phnom Penh train station and surrounding area ca 1960.
The process of building the station was hampered by the rainy season. "A considerable advance was thus taken during the first year and, in 1931, the Company concentrated all her effort on the one hand on the Phnom Penh train station, including embankments, buildings and facilities, which are of an exceptional importance, and secondly on ballast supplies. Meanwhile, nature, so often hostile in Cambodia, became the main auxiliary against the engineers by packing embankments and consolidating them with vegetation. Good weather having returned, work actively resumed with the rehabilitation of the embankments and the levelling of the platform."

The station was built in 1932 from reinforced concrete to service the railway to Battambang.

History

On September 28-September 30, 1960, twenty-one leaders of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) held a secret congress at the station. The meeting resulted in the party being renamed as the Workers Party of Kampuchea (WPK). In Democratic Kampuchea, this pivotal meeting would later be projected as the founding date of the party. The first important meeting of the Khmer Rouge leadership including Pol Pot was held at the railway station in April 1975, following the fall of Phnom Penh at which the decision to evacuate the cities was taken.

Address: Sangkat Sras Chak, Daun Penh District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sights & Landmarks, Points of Interest & Landmarks, Architectural Buildings
Opened: 1932
Rebuilt: 2010 (Renovation)
Platforms in use: 2

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