Bangkok Station

A visual journey through Hua Lamphong railway station.

Tim Russell

“After more than seven years of taking photographs there, I decided it was time to put this book together — as an homage to, or a time capsule of, one of the city's most beloved buildings.

-Tim Russell

A monk waits on Platform 5 as a State Railway of Thailand locomotive arrives — two constants of Thai life, unhurried and side by side.

An elderly man reads a Thai newspaper on the platform bench, unhurried, as the world moves around him.

The men in uniform who keep Hualamphong running, captured in two very different moments of stillness.