Preserved Steam Rollers and other Steam Engines in Thailand
Click here for the "Surviving Steam Rollers" index page.
Please see also my list of preserved and extant steam locomotives and steam cranes in Thailand. I would like to acknowledge the help given by Derek Rayner, Chris Grimes, Peter Green, John Tomlinson, Ray Gardiner, Shane O'Neill, Peter Busby and Michael Pass in assembling this list.
Latest additions:
- Picture of Krabi roller (6th May 2012)
- Traction engine near Phrae (1st May 2012)
- Pictures of the roller at Sakhon Nakhon (6th March 2012)
- Pictures of the rollers at Nakhon Chaisi and Bangna Trad / Srinakarin Junction, Bangkok (1st March 2012)
- One more steam roller near Chiang Mai and pictures of it and the first one, plus part of another (17th February 2012)
- Unknown boiler ++ at Kanchanaburi (14th January 2012)
- Former Ekamai engines' new location confirmed (6th January 2012)
- Another Albaret in Bangkok (30th October 2011), confirmed identity and picture (6th January 2012)
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Steam Rollers
IMPORTANT - Albaret rollers have often been reported as '1926', this actually refers to the decree which required the boilers/fireboxes to carry an identification plate. The Thai examples were all supplied in the first half of the 1950s, often the small circular boiler disc has just "53" or similar for the year of build on it. Will future visitors please check this. Works number 1953 (of 1953) also went to the Far East (Indonesia) but is now in the UK, via Australia; as one of a trio from this period that were sold on to Australia.
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Location |
Maker |
Number |
Year |
Notes |
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Bangkok Rama 1 Road |
Garrett - Leiston, England |
33021 |
1917 |
Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed
to enter. Formerly at the
National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok (shown here). |
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National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok |
Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France |
1954 |
195? |
GPS Coordinates 13.719565 N, 100.582447 E |
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Suphanburi, Highways Department |
Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France |
1956 |
195? |
At Highways Department, just north of town centre. |
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Sukothai Highways Department |
Henschel |
At Highways Department, on the main road to Phitsanulok, east of town |
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Udon Thani (29th December 2010) |
Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England | 10km south of the town on the Khon Kaen road, incomplete. thought not to be the same as that above. | ||
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Bangkok Rama 1 Road | Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France | 1964 | Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianfuller/map/?photo=3723655730 | |
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Nakhon Sawon |
Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France |
(likely 195?) |
2 or 3 km south of Nakhon Sawan on the east side of Route 1, in the grounds of 'council offices' most likely the Highways Department. |
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Lom Sak Highways Dept | Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France | 1987 | 195? | Not actually in Lom Sak at all, but alongside the main road (12) a few km further East, towards Nam Nao, by the traffic lights & junction. |
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Bangna Trad / Srinakarin Junction, Bangkok. |
Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France |
1985 |
1953 |
Belongs to the Highways
Department |
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Sakhon Nakhon |
Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England |
114302 |
ca 1921 |
Two cylinder compound. Plinthed in the Highways Office gardens. On the left at the end of highway 22 from Udon Thani, where it meets the main road into town, opposite the 4 columned ornamental arch. |
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(near) Chiang Mai | Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England | 143152 | 10km north of Chiang Mai on right side of highway 107 to Mae Rim opposite Don Kaew Community Hospital. | |
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(near) Chiang Mai | Aveling & Porter | On the 1006 road, some 3km east of San Kamphaeng and about 20 km east of Chiang Mai, outside the Highway sub-district office. For a 2008 picture on a different base see Picture on http://www.pbase.com/win13/image/92569427 . | ||
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Krabi Beach Resort |
Aveling - Barford |
Strictly it's at Ao Nang. Diesel conversion! For pictures see |
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Nakhon Chaisi (near Nakhon Pathom) | Aveling & Porter | Jesada Teknik Museum have a 10ton Aveling and Porter subsequently converted to diesel. See http://2bangkok.com/forum/showthread.php?3216-Jesada-Technik-Museum |
The following pictures shown part of a Henschel compound roller preserved in Chiang Mai - for the location see note 29 at the bottom of the preserved Thai steam locomotive list.
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Traction Engines
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Location |
Maker |
Number |
Year |
Notes |
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Bangkok Rama 1 Road |
John Fowler - Leeds, England |
17294 |
Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter. Formerly at the National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok |
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Kanchanaburi | War Museum. Derek Rayner's best guess is that it is from a Marshall steam roller. | |||
| Click for picture | Phrae | http://rideasia.net/forum/northern-thailand-tour-5days-2500kms-t14-12.html |
Portable and Other Steam Engines
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Location |
Maker |
Number |
Year |
Notes |
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Talard Park, Nakorn Sri Thammarat |
Ruston Proctor, Lincoln, England |
GPS Coordinates 8.452848 N, 99.951583 E |