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The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma (now called Myanmar).
Burma's last major rail line, from Thazi on the Rangoon-Mandalay line to Kalaw (a hill station in the southern Shan State) was built between 1914 and 1918. [4] In 1928, the Burma Railway Company was dissolved; the railways were brought directly under government operation and renamed Burma Railways.
In 1928, the railway was renamed Burma Railways and, in 1989, with the renaming of the country, it became Myanma Railways. The Japanese invasion during the Second World War caused considerable damage to the rail network.
Myanmar Railways station map Division 8 Mawlamyine. Mileage: 324.25 miles (521.83 km) Railway Track: 386.75 miles (622.41 km) Bridges 832 Stations 82 (only 72 shown on the map) Sat Thwar Chon 73 3/4 (Division 6)
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ทางรถไฟไทย-พม่า) is a museum and research centre in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie, [ 1 ] an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway . [ 2 ]
Siam Burma Death Railway is a 2014 Singaporean documentary film written and directed by Kurinji Vendan about the Asian forced-laborers who worked on the Siam-Burma Death Railway during World War II. Synopsis
The bridge is between the two towns of Nawnghkio and Gokhteik, and it's part of the railways between Pyin Oo Lwin, the summer capital of the former British colonial administrators of Burma, and Lashio, the principal town of northern Shan State. It is the highest bridge in Myanmar and when it was completed, the largest railway trestle in the world.
Railways of Burma may refer to: Burma Railway - a railway connecting Thailand and Burma constructed by the Japanese using POW labor during World War II; Rail transport in Burma; History of rail transport in Myanmar; for Burma Railway Company, an early British era company charged with operating the railways of Burma, see History of rail ...