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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]
Tha Kilen railway station is a railway station located in Sing Subdistrict, Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province. It is a class 2 railway station located 161.95 km (100.6 mi) from Bangkok railway station .
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 station is a class 2 railway station, located 194.24 km (120.7 mi) from Thon Buri railway station. Nam Tok is the current terminus for daily trains from Bangkok on the Death Railway line. However, an excursion train from Bangkok during the weekends continues to Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi Halt , a few kilometres from the station.
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]
Most foreigners are mainly aware of Kanchanaburi's recent history with the Burma Railway. During the Japanese occupation of Thailand in 1942, both allied POWs and Asian labourers were ordered by the Japanese to build a Thailand-Burma railway. Eventually, more than 100,000 people (16,000 allied POWs and 90,000 local Asian labourers) died from ...
Kanchanaburi railway station is a main railway station of province of Kanchanaburi located in Ban Tai Subdistrict, Kanchanaburi City, Thailand. It is a class 1 railway station located 117.046 km (72.7 mi) from Thon Buri railway station , and 77 km (47.8 mi) away from the Nam Tok railway station , the terminal station. [ 1 ]