Free Train rides over New Years!

There will be free train rides provided by the State Railway of Thailand during the new years holiday! The governor of the Railway said there will be up to 20 free non air conditioned trains as well as 6 air conditioned trains serving Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Ubon and Surat Thani. I personally would not mind a nice train ride with the weather being so cool it might be a good time to get away. The governor said usually there are up to 100,000 passangers a day but with the long weekend holiday they are expecting more then 120,000. One thing he did add was the security will be more lax to avoid delays...... is this something you really want to decrease during a holiday season?