300px, Rama II Road in the area of Samut Sakhon Province Rama II Road ( th, ถนนพระรามที่ 2, ; usually shortened to ) or Highway 35 () is a road in Thailand heading towards the

south South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...

. Rama II Road starts from Chom Thong District in the

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side of Bangkok, passing through

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into Samut Sakhon Province. It then enters Samut Songkhram Province and terminates at a

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with

Phet Kasem Road Phet Kasem Road (, , )ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน. ''อ่านอย่างไร และ เขียนอย่างไร ฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน.'' พิมพ์ครั้งที่ ...

(Highway 4) in Ratchaburi Province, with a total distance of . The road is maintained by the Department of Highways. Rama II Road was built during the government of Field Marshal

Thanom Kittikachorn Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn ( th, ถนอม กิตติขจร, ; 11 August 1911 – 16 June 2004) was the leader of Thailand from 1963 to 1973, during which he staged a self-coup, until public protests which exploded into viole ...

with a total budget of approximately 419 million baht and was officially opened on 1 April 1973. It was named "Rama II" in honor of King

Phutthaloetla Naphalai Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai ( th, พระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย, 24 February 1767 – 21 July 1824), personal name Chim ( th, ฉิม), also styled as Rama II, was the second monarch of Siam under the Chakri ...

(Rama II) of the

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, who was born in present-day Samut Songkhram Province. Construction began in mid-1970, divided into 3 phases: # Thonburi to Samut Sakhon, a distance of 29 km, construction cost 180 million

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# Samut Sakhon to Samut Songkhram, a distance of 36 km, construction cost 142 million baht #Samut Songkhram to meet Phet Kasem Road at the km 125.5 in area of Amphoe Pak Tho, Ratchaburi Province, distance 19 km, along with Somdet Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai Bridge, the bridge over

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, including construction cost 99 million baht. Upon its completion, the road became an important travel route which shortened the travel time to the south, bypassing Phet Kasem Road and helping to divert its traffic. A side effect of the road's construction was that the

Maeklong Railway The Maeklong Railway (also known as the Mae Klong Railway) is a railway that runs for nearly between Wongwian Yai, Bangkok, and Samut Songkhram in central Thailand. The line consists of two sections: the eastern Mahachai Line, which runs betwe ...

line became less frequented and unprofitable, but still could not be retired due to some villages remaining accessible only by train.

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