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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).
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 ]
Hellfire Pass (Thai: ช่องเขาขาด, known by the Japanese as Konyu Cutting) is the name of a railway cutting on the former Burma Railway ("Death Railway") in Thailand, which was built with forced labour during World War II.
As a first step, Japan planned to lay the Siam – Burma railway line connecting Siam(i.e., Thailand) and Myanmar. The Siam–Burma railway did not traverse benign terrain. It snaked through dark, deep valleys, climbed high mountain ranges and lengthy mountain passes, crossed great rivers and inhospitable rain forests.
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 ...
On 16 September 1942, railway construction started at both ends of the planned line. [3] Thai-Burma Railway. Nong Pladuk is on the bottom right. Camp Nong Pladuk was initially used as a transit camp from where the prisoners were transported or had to walk to work camps along the Burma Railway. Later Nong Pladuk was also used a revalidation camp ...
The Thai-Burma railway also ceased operation as the Burmese side of the tracks were retrieved and used to restore their domestic rail, making it so that the Thai side can only function as a domestic line. While there has been attempts to reconnect the line, due to negligible demand for passenger or freight service the connection remains closed.
English: Sick and Dying- Cholera Lines - Thai-burma Railway, 1943 image: A camp on the Thai-Burma Railway. A group of five emaciated men stand around bamboo stretchers lying on the ground, each containing the corpse of a cholera victim tightly wrapped and bound in a cloth.