Support
Help with the app and the planner, and the answers to the questions that arrive most often — including the two that sound like faults and are not.
Network reviewed 2026-07 · 203 stations · 17 crossings
Getting in touch
One address, read by a person: doug@mukbangshow.ae. There is no ticket system and no form — it is a small project, and an email reaches me faster than either would.
Corrections to the network are the most welcome kind of mail there is. If you have just crossed a border or ridden a leg and found it different from what the app said, that is worth more than any amount of desk research.
Questions that come up
It will not give me a departure time
Deliberately, and it is the hardest thing to explain about the app.
SRT, KTMB, the Laos–China Railway, Vietnam Railways and KAI publish
nothing in a common format, and several of them change a timetable
without announcing it. A departure time carried inside an app is a
remembered time, and a remembered time is the fastest way to miss a
train.
What you get instead is the thing that actually decides whether
a plan survives: how often each service runs. A missed connection on a
train that goes eight times a day costs an hour. On one that runs twice
a week it costs three days. Take the legs to the operator's own booking
page — linked on each one — and read the real clock there.
Something is out of date, or plainly wrong
Please tell me. This is a hand-built network and the corrections that
arrive from people who have just made the journey are worth more than
anything I can check from a desk.
The most useful report says which two stations, what the app
claimed, what you found, and roughly when you were there. A photograph
of a departure board or a ticket settles almost anything.
doug@mukbangshow.ae.
How current is this?
The network was last reviewed 2026-07, and the app
shows that date at the foot of every itinerary rather than hiding it.
Every leg also carries how much it should be trusted.
Structural means a physical or administrative fact — where a
station is, which gauge, who stamps passports where — and those are
stable for years. Reported means it agrees across the operator's
own pages and the usual reliable sources. Verify means volatile or
known to suspend, and those are the ones to confirm before you build a
plan around them.
Does it work without a signal?
Entirely. The network, the map, the routing and every border briefing are
inside the app; nothing is fetched while you use it. It works in flight
mode at a frontier post, which is the situation it was built for.
The only things that need a connection are the outbound links —
an operator's booking page, or a location in a maps app — and those open
in your browser rather than in the app.
Can I buy tickets in it?
No, and it will not try to. Each leg links to whoever actually sells that ticket, which is usually the operator's own site. Where an operator genuinely cannot be booked from abroad, an aggregator is offered instead — and it is labelled as one.
The prices look wrong
They are indicative, and the app says so on every itinerary. Fares in the region move with fuel, season and class, and several operators price the same seat differently depending on where you buy it. Use the totals to compare one journey against another and against a flight; use the operator's site for what you will actually pay.
It says there is no way through
That is an answer rather than a failure. Myanmar has no through rail to Thailand. Vietnam's network touches no neighbour's. Indonesia is reachable only by sea. When the honest answer is that a journey cannot be made overland, the app says so and tells you where the gap is, instead of inventing a leg to fill it.
The app and the website are not identical
Correct, in two ways. The app leaves out the photographs, because the library is most of the download and the drawn artwork is the same artwork the site falls back to anyway. And it leaves out the links to the written-up route pages, which are separate documents on the website and would be dead ends inside a single bundled file. Every itinerary the two produce is the same itinerary — it is the same program.
Privacy
Nothing is collected — no account, no analytics, no advertising, and on Android no permission to reach the network at all. The privacy policy sets out exactly what that means on each platform, including the places the claim is weaker than it sounds.