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Nong Khai Railway Station (สถานีรถไฟหนองคาย)

Nong Khai Railway Station is a Class 1 terminal station on the Nong Khai branch of Thailand’s Northeastern Line, located about 624 kilometres from Bangkok. It is the main rail gateway to Nong Khai Province and lies only a few kilometres from the Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge across the Mekong River. From here, trains continue across the bridge into Laos, terminating at Vientiane (Khamsavath) Station, which opened in 2021 as the capital’s first modern rail terminal. This makes Nong Khai one of Thailand’s most important international rail hubs, linking Bangkok with Vientiane and strengthening cross-border travel between the two countries.

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TIMETABLES

These are all the outbound and inbound trains that stop at this station. For more information about these trains, visit the Train Finder for the Northeastern Line and Timetables for the Northeastern Line. Also, visit the Train Tracking System for live updates for this station.

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Nong Khai’s role as an international gateway is set to expand further in the coming years. The station is expected to be the southern terminus for a planned high-speed rail line from Bangkok to Vientiane, forming part of the wider China–Laos–Thailand Railway Corridor. Once complete, this will allow through services from Bangkok to connect with the Laos–China Railway at Vientiane, and eventually continue north to Kunming in Yunnan, China.

Infrastructure upgrades are being planned on both sides of the Mekong to support this vision, including a new bridge designed specifically for rail freight and passenger services. If realised, Nong Khai will shift from being just a provincial terminal to becoming one of Southeast Asia’s most strategic railway junctions, linking Thailand’s network directly with Laos, China, and beyond.

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