MRT Brown Line

MRT Brown Line รถไฟฟ้าโมโนเรล สายสีน้ำตาล
Overview
Type	Monorail
System	MRT
Status	planned
Locale	Bangkok and Nonthaburi, Thailand
Termini	Nonthaburi Civic Center Sammakon
Stations	21
Operation
Opened	Unknown
Owner	Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand
Technical
Line length	22 kilometers (14 mi) (est.)
No. of tracks	2 monorail tracks
Electrification	Third rail
Operating speed	80 km/h (50 mph)

The MRT Brown Line is a 22 km rapid transit line under preliminary study in Bangkok, Thailand. The line is proposed to run from Khae Rai, Nonthaburi to Bueng Kum, Minburi with 21 stations as a monorail.

The line was proposed as the Gold Line by the Pheu Thai party for the Bangkok Governors election held in March 2013. This was in response to objections by Kasetsart University to long-proposed Expressway extensions. The line is an alternative to an elevated Expressway. However, the Pheu Thai candidate did not win the election and the Gold Line was dropped. The Deputy Minister of Transport stated that land appropriation costs were too high. Subsequently, OTP reworked the Gold Line proposal into a new Brown Line following a comparable route. As of June 2013 the route was under preliminary study by OTP.

This line is not the original 2004 13 km proposal from Bangkapi to Min Buri. This was subsequently merged in 2009 into an extended MRT Orange Line.

Route

The Brown Line was to start at Nonthaburi Civic Center and continue to Khae Rai and along Ngam Wong Wan road to Vihavadi-Rangsit road (interchange with SRT Dark Red Line) and continue east to Kaset. The Civic Center line would interchange with MRT Purple Line & MRT Pink Lines. Kaset would interchange with BTS Sukhumvit Line.

The line heads east along Prasote Manukit road (AKA Kaset-Namawin rd) past Chalong Rat Expressway (interchanging with the proposed Grey Line) to Namawin Rd. It continues south along Namawin Road and cuts through directly southeast from Namawin soi 30 junction to Seri Thai rd soi 35 junction. The line extends further southeast where it terminates at Ramkhamhaeng rd (soi 129/1 junction) to interchange with MRT Orange Line.

Progress

In August 2013, the MRTA approved the line in principle with a goal to complete design by 2016, followed by a 3-year construction period and a 2021 opening.

Stations

The 22 km Brown line will have 21 stations (plus 2 potential future stations):

3

Note: Station names are provisional.

Future Stations:

• Prasoed Manookij Soi 25 between Stations 11 & 12
• Nawamin Soi 42 between Stations 18 & 19.

External links

• "2Bangkok Brown Line thread" Semi-regular updates, articles, pictures and commentary (In English)
• "Airport Rail Link, BTS, MRT & BRT network map"

See also

• BTS Skytrain
• Airport Rail Link (Bangkok)
• Bangkok Metro
• MRT Blue Line
• MRT Grey Line
• MRT Orange Line
• MRT Pink Line
• MRT Purple Line
• MRT Yellow Line
• SRT Red Lines
• Bangkok BRT