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Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
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] The centre is located to the west of the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, [3] and is housed in the former headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Army which was constructed by prisoners of war and Asian forced labourers. [4]
At Kanchanaburi, there is a memorial and two museums to commemorate the dead. In March 2003, the Thailand–Burma Railway Centre opened and the JEATH (Japanese-English-American-Australian-Thai-Holland) War Museum dedicated to the bridge and the Death Railway. [12] The city is also home to the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. [13]
The JEATH War Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์อักษะเชลยศึก) are two war museums in Kanchanaburi, Thailand about the Death Railway, which was built from 1942 to 1943 by Allied POWs under the direction of the Japanese as part of the Thai-Burma railways. The older JEATH museum is located in the CBD area of ...
The nearest railway station is at Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi, where trains of the State Railway of Thailand can be taken for a trip over the Wang Pho Viaduct and across the bridge over the River Kwai to Kanchanaburi, which is the nearest major town and tourist base. Visitors to the site usually base themselves in Kanchanaburi.
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre, which gives a good introduction of the Burma Railway and its history. There are also two war cemeteries, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery and Chungkai War Cemetery. The JEATH War Museum is located near the Thailand–Burma Railway station of Kanchanaburi. Although it is called the War Museum, the museum also houses ...
The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (known locally as the Don-Rak War Cemetery [2]) is the main prisoner of war (POW) cemetery for victims of Japanese imprisonment while building the Burma Railway. It is on the main road, Saeng Chuto Road, through the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, [3] adjacent to an older Chinese cemetery. The cemetery contains ...
The Pacific CX50 steam locomotive, numbered 850, was leading a train on the Death Railway line, passing through the Krasae Cave in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, during the year 1998. CDA5B1, a diesel-electric locomotives from CRRC Qishuyan that will replace decade-old locomotives.