Khun Tan ขุนตาน | |||||||||||
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Location | Tha Pladuk Subdistrict, Mae Tha District, Lamphun Thailand | ||||||||||
Operated by | State Railway of Thailand | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Northern Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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Station code | ขน. | ||||||||||
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Khun Tan railway station is a railway station on the Northern Line located in Lamphun Province, Thailand. It is operated by the State Railway of Thailand, and is 683.14 km (424.5 mi) from Bangkok railway station. Khun Tan Railway Station is in the Tha Pladuk Subdistrict, Mae Tha District.
Khun Tan is the highest railway station in Thailand, at 578 metres (1,896 ft 4 in) above sea level. Around the railway station is the entrance Doi Khuntan National Park, which has bungalows run by the State Railway of Thailand, for visitors' use as well.
Two hundred metres south of Khun Tan Railway Station is the Khun Tan Tunnel. It is the longest railway tunnel in Thailand, at 1,352.1 metres (4,436 ft 0 in) in length. Construction took 11 years at a cost of 1.3 million baht. It was finished in 1918.
18°30′02″N 99°15′55″E / 18.5005°N 99.2652°E