
Early this month, there was a short news report about the death of a railway staffer in Muang district of Udon Thani province. Local news rarely gathers much mainstream media attention, but this shed light on safety issues related to the infrastructure of the railway system.
On the morning of 18 June, the 58-year-old State Railway of Thailand (SRT) employee was found dead inside a small booth at the Nong Dair railway crossing -- with a bottle of blood-pressure medicine beside his bunk.