Thai - Burma railway (death railway) Kanchanaburi - Nam Tok
Thai - Burma Railway is known as the Death Railway. SRT rocal train runs Bridge on the river Kwai, Chungkwai Cutting, and Tham Krasae Bridge.
Riding the Thai Burma Railway ( Death Railway ), Thailand
Taking a ride on the Thai-Burma Railway (aka the Death Railway ) in Thailand you feel like you should reflect on the harrowing history of Japan's 1941 invasion in Thailand, the forced encampment and labor of men to construct the train and the death of over 25,000 Asian labourers and Allied POWs as a result constructing this railway. One would think this was a somber ride.
Instead, it's a bit of a scenic journey through Thai towns and alongside hills.
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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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Constructed during World War II, the Thailand to Burma railway is also known as the Death Railway. It is said that one man died for every sleeper that was laid on the track. The line was repaired and restored after the war and still runs passenger services as far as Nam Tok to the north of Kanchanaburi with the most famous section of the line being the Bridge over the River Kwai.
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Death Railway Museum ( Thailand-Burma Railway Centre) - Kanchanaburi - Thailand
This museum certainly gives an excellent insight to what our POW endured in the building of the Thai - Burma railway. There is lots of excellent displays and a lot of photos with good descriptions next to them. The condition of these men who built this railway is hard to believe. The conditions and difficulty in building this railway were certainly tough and I think modern man would struggle with what these soldiers endured. This is certainly a place worth viewing!
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Here i am in Kanchanaburi ,i go to the Nam Tok railway station in a taxi , once there you can explore the railways ,take in the views and visit the cave which is home to a lovely Buddha , then you can buy a ticket for the train back to the bridge over the river kwai
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Death Railway Thailand. Kanchanaburi
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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Exploring the Thai-Burma Death Railway
This video shows some parts of the railway between Kanchanburi and Three Pagodas Pass, and some maps. The sections shown here are around Wang Pho, Tarso, Tonchan, Hellfire Pass, Kannyu, Kinsaiyok, Shimo Nikke, Shimo Songkurai, Songkurai and Three Pagodas Pass.
I used Hyperlapse to try to smoothe my walking, but it unfortunately left some jitter in places. And the footage at Shimo Somgkurai was taken years ago with an old camera and is terrible quality. I plan to redo that section with my current camera in the near future.
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The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, British POWs and their Japanese captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the 'Death Railway'. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, their Japanese guards tell of different horrors of war, some never disclosed before.
Exploring how they have survived the terrible memories, this is an often inspiring story that many of these men have waited a long time to tell. What emerges is a warm and emotional journey through the lives of men from different sides reflecting on a terrible event that still haunts them.
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An impression video of the Death Railway (Thai - Burma Railway) constructed in WWII whereby 100.000+ died.
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The Thai–Burma Railway ทางรถไฟสายมรณะ, Tham Kra Sae Bridge in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
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