Kampot Railway Station

I am not sure how and when I got interested to Cambodian railway stations and their architectures; but I am sure I have been partly influenced by my friend working as an architect.

After the boat cruising, we hired a tuk-tuk heading to Kampot market and the railway station in the last hours before taking our bus back to Phnom Penh. It took about 10 minutes (I do not clearly remember) from Kampot’s down town to the station. It is just a rather long concrete building with tin roof that is now corrugated, yet the building is somehow unique in its own style. It is smaller than the station in Sihanoukville (I wish I have visited the railways station in Battambang last year when I was there). I am not surprised to find it as an abandoned and quite place. I am glad that we made the visit!!

The front view of the main building

It made me imagine the scene when people are queuing to get tickets (But I wonder if people queued in that old time).

There was no sight of train on tracks beside some sort of yellow machinery vehicles and freight wagons.