The Death Railway Museum, Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar
The Death Railway was a 415 kilometer railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II.
The Between 180,000 and 250,000 Southeast Asian civilian labourers and about 61,000 Allied prisoners of war were subjected to forced labour during its construction. About 90,000 civilian labourers and more than 12,000 Allied prisoners died.
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Ausflug in den Süden von Myanmar nach Thanbyuzayat. Rundgang über den Kriegerfriedhof der Alliierten. Besuch des Museums der Todeseisenbahn (Death Railway) von Burma nach Thailand. Mehr dazu findet Ihr in unserem Reisebericht über Myanmar auf
Myanmar looks to revive abandoned 'Death Railway'
An elegant cemetery in strife-torn southeast Myanmar has long stood as a lonely testament to the fate of thousands of prisoners of war who died building Japan's Death Railway. Now the reformist government is considering rebuilding a stretch of the notorious World War II track to attract tourists.Duration: 02:45
'Railway of Death' - POW Burma-Siam (Thailand) railway
By permission of the Imperial War museum for this project. Silent.
Filmed shortly after the end of World War Two - some of the aftermath of the 258 mile long Burma-Thailand (Siam) railway, constructed by a slave force of POWs and Asian civilians 1942-43. Known as the 'Railway of Death' it claimed the lives of an estimated 16,000 'allied' troops and 90,000 Asian labourers. Working on this railway was the fate of the majority of those captured by the japanese in Singapore, many being sent up on railway cars to Kanburi (now Kanchanaburi) base west of Bangkok, the start of the railway in Thailand (then Siam). This is also near the infamous 'Bridge on the River Kwai.
Starts at Thanbyuzayat railway sidings at the beginning of the Burma section, and here Japanese soldiers unload stores - most likely filmed by a British unit after the end of war. Three British officers of the No 3 Indian Army Graves Registration Unit examine map of railway and later the Japanese soldier seen earlier talks with British officers.
Wooden signs mark graves and one reads 'Allied Cemetery -17 Graves -150 metres'. At the end two of the grave signs read: 'AIF-Driver JL'. Many more must be lost in the jungle.
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Riding Death Train in Kanchanaburi Thailand HD | River Kwai | Bangkok to Nam Tok
This death railway constructed by Japan during World War II.
You can get the train from Kanchanaburi railway station Bangkok to Nam Tok.
Fare is 100 Baht.
You can also get it for 300 Baht in which you can get daring certificate.
Train leaves at 7.50 am and it will reach Nam Tok at 12.30pm
Dates of operation 1942–1943 (Section to Nam Tok reopened in 1957)
Track gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge[1]
The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Siam–Burma Railway, the Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, was a 415-kilometre (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II. This railway completed the rail link between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon). The name used by the Japanese Government is (Thai–Men-Rensetsu-Tetsudou), which means Thailand-Myanmar-Link-Railway.
The line was closed in 1947, but the section between Nong Pla Duk and Nam Tok was reopened ten years later.
Between 180,000 and 250,000 Southeast Asian civilian labourers (rōmusha) and about 61,000 Allied prisoners of war were subjected to forced labour during its construction. About 90,000 civilian labourers and more than 12,000 Allied prisoners died.
The line was closed in 1947, but the section between Nong Pla Duk and Nam Tok was reopened ten years later in 1957
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In 1943 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War (PoW) and Asian labourers worked on the Death Railway under the imperial Japanese army in order to construct part of the 415 km long Burma-Thailand railway. Most of these men were Australians, Dutch and British and they had been working steadily southwards from Thanbyuzayat (Burma) to link with other PoW on the Thai side of the railway. This railway was intended to move men and supplies to the Burmese front where the Japanese were fighting the British. Japanese army engineers selected the route which traversed deep valleys and hills. All the heavy work was done manually either by hand or by elephant as earth moving equipment was not available. The railway line originally ran within 50 meters of the Three Pagodas Pass which marks nowadays the border to Burma. However after the war the entire railway was removed and sold as it was deemed unsafe and politically undesirable. The prisoners lived in squalor with a near starvation diet. They were subjected to captor brutality and thus thousands perished. The men worked from dawn until after dark and often had to trudge many kilometres through the jungle to return to base camp where Allied doctors tended the injured and diseased by many died. After the war the dead were collectively reburied in the War Cemeteries and will remain forever witness to a brutal and tragic ordeal.
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The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Siam-Burma Railway, the Thai-Burma Railway and similar names, was a 415-kilometre railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II. This railway completed the rail link between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar).
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The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Siam–Burma Railway, the Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, was a 415-kilometre railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II.
At indescribable human cost, Japan’s Death Railway – in fact the most famous of a total of four that the Japanese used forced labour to build around this time – was completed in October 1943. For a time it was operational, although damage caused by British and American air raids rendered it unusable in June 1945. Following the railway’s completion, many of the prisoners of war who worked on it were taken to Japan. Others, including those retained to carry out maintenance work in even riskier conditions before and during the Allied bombings towards the end of the war, were transferred to nearby camps, although large numbers still perished even there.
It wasn’t until the war’s end in 1945 that Allied forces liberated the Death Railway’s remaining prisoners. The railway itself was fully closed in 1947 and, along the Siam-Burma border, a section of track not already destroyed by bombing was ripped up in an effort to put the railway irreversibly beyond use.
The Bridge on the River Kwai escaped planned bombing, and remains in place in Kanchanaburi as a tourist attraction and functioning railway bridge over which trains pass daily. The majority of its smaller components are originals, while a few are post-war replacements. Although the Death Railway has never again reached the Myanmar border, a shorter stretch was reopened by Thailand’s railway authorities between 1949 and 1958, and trains on this modern-day line cross the infamous Bridge on the River Kwai.
That makes the Bridge on the River Kwai one of Kanchanaburi’s most popular war-related attractions – there are always crowds trudging across it and snapping photos – but it is actually something of a misnomer. When the bridge was built, the water beneath it was actually the Mae Klong River, although it did join the Khwae Noi River elsewhere. As the bridge became famous, it was referred to using a not only incorrect but also mispronounced name, soon becoming known as the River Kwai (which means ‘buffalo river’). To make life easier, the waterway was renamed the Khwae Yai, which at least comes closer to what tourists now know it as.