via Bangkok Post, 20 November 2021: Bangkok’s iconic train station is scheduled to be decomissioned at the end of the year, but the Fine Arts Department has plans to have it preserved.
The Fine Arts Department (FAD) will register Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong railway station as a national heritage in a bid to shield it from development plans.
Nattapong Siriwattanapichet, an archaeologist with the department, said the century-old station is regarded as a historical site although it has not yet been given official national heritage site status.
He said the Act on Ancient Monuments, Antiques, Objects of Art and National Museums BE 2540 (1961) applies to the railway station.
Source: Fine Arts Department wants to protect old railway terminus
