Royal Group CEO Neak Okhna Kith Meng has posted up a message on the company website saying that taking the train over the Khmer New Year holidays will allow travellers to sit back and enjoy the scenery. The trains are scheduled to depart from both terminus stations at 07:00 and will call at Takeo and Kampot en route.
Royal Railway says the estimated travel time for the 266km journey is eight hours. An anonymous source noted that Royal Railway did not have enough air-conditioned carriages to run every train with this comfort-enhancing convenience and it will only be available on every other day from each departure station.
The last public passenger train to run in Cambodia was in 2009. Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville services were scrapped seven years before with the then state operator claiming the service was not economically viable as buses were faster and cheaper.
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Royal Railway to run trial Phnom Penh Sihanoukville passenger trains
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Cambodia’s Royal Railway Company has announced it will run trial passenger trains from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville next month. The concessionaire currently operating the nation’s limited freight train routes says it will run one train a day in each direction for eight days beginning on 9 April.