Hellfire Pass Museum - The death railway...Kanchanaburi.. Vlog No 120
A Trip to Hellfire Pass Museum - The death railway...Kanchanaburi
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See an important reminder of World War II at Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum and Walking Trail, commemorating part of the route of the Burma Railway. Known also as the Death Railway, the line was constructed by POWs held by Japanese forces, along with Asian slave-laborers. This particular section was cut through solid rock by Allied prisoners and slaves working under treacherous conditions, with little rest or food. Now a museum, the site allows you to walk through the valley and learn about this tragic period in human history, with a range of exhibits and touching memorials to those that suffered here.
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A trip to see Sai Yok Noi Waterfall, Sai Yok, Kanchanaburi: Thailand Vloggers No 96 --
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River Kwai to Hellfire Pass Kanchanaburi Thailand
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The Thailand - Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, was built by the Prisoners of War in 1942 - 43.
Thailand (was known as Siam) was invaded by Japan in December 1941. Japan sought to create a transport route through Siam into Burma, which it also occupied between 1942 - 44, in order to reduce its reliance on sea transport and facilitate onward moves into India.
More than 60,000 Prisoners of War enslaved on the Death Railway. Many souls were sacrificed during the making of the Siam - Burma Railway...
These made the River Kwai and Hellfire Pass famous to the travelers from all over the world.
Today, the surviving Railway line reaches Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi Station, one of the areas other famous war-related attractions.
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Sai Yok Noi is a waterfall in the Tenasserim Hills, Sai Yok District of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, near the town Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi. It is the most popular attraction of the Sai Yok National Park.[1] It is popular among domestic and foreign tourists alike, in part because it lies next to the province's trunk road alongside which there is ample parking space.
The immediate vicinity features several sites of interest including the Krasae Cave, a small Buddhist shrine next to a section of rail tracks of the Death Railway and, to the west, Dawadung Cave, a secluded collection of stalactites. Hellfire Pass Memorial, a museum and tribute to those lost during the construction of the Death Railway's cuttings and trestle bridges, lies about 35 km to the west of Sai Yok Noi falls. A small market geared toward travellers is also nearby. Sai Yok Yai waterfall, some 40 km to the west lies offset from the valley's main road, adjacent to the Sai Yok National Park Headquarters. It comprises a 10-metre (32 ft) picturesque cascade which drops directly into the Kwae Noi River.
Burma Railway, Thailand
Video with images of the Burma Railway from Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi to Kanchanaburi in Thailand with the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai. In the Second World War, after the occupation of Thailand and Burma, the Japanese army had many difficulties in providing its troops with supplies. The delivery of supplies by sea through the Strait of Malacca was difficult because of air raids by the allied armies. Therefore the Japanese government decided to construct a railway between Thailand and Burma.
Allied prisoners of war and Asian coolies were forced to work on the railway project. In various places primitive camps were established for the labourers. They had to construct the railway under inhuman circumstances. The construction works started at 16 september 1942. The Japanese had planned to finish the project in five years, but already after fifteen months the railway was ready for use. Many people died in the construction of the railway, most of them because of hunger, exhaustion, tropical disease and air raids. For 20 months the Japanese military made use of the railway until it was destroyed by allied bombardments. After the war the British dismantled a large part of the railway near the Burmese border. The rest was sold to the Royal Thai Railway company.
The Royal Thai Railway company started reconstruction works in the years after the war. In 1949, the portion from Kanchanaburi to Nong Pladuk was finished. In 1952, the next section up to Wang Pho was done. Finally in 1958 the rail line was completed to Nam Tok near the Sai Yok waterfalls. The portion in use today measures some 130 km. The line was abandoned beyond Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi. Since the 1990s various proposals have been made to rebuild the complete railway, but these plans have not yet come to fruition.
The video starts with images of the Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi railway station. Near the station is a monument with original parts of the railway and a locomotive which was used at the time of the construction for the transport of men and materials. On its way to Kanachanaburi the train passes the Wang Po viaduct, a high wooden bridge built against a giant rock wall and for a large part still consisting of the original construction materials. The train also passes the site of a former prisoner of war camp at Hellfire Pass north of the current terminus at Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi.
At Kanchanaburi the original bridge over the river Kwai was made of bamboo. The bridge was temporary and in the course of the war it was replaced by a steel bridge. For this project the Japanese army dismantled a steel bridge in Java and transported it in parts to Kanchanaburi where allied prisoners of war reassembled the bridge. The original steel bridge had semicircular arches, but at the end of the war, three arches in the middle were destroyed by British bombers from Ceylon.
The Royal Thai Railway company replaced them by two rectangular steel arches with a curious inscription Made in Japan. The rectangular arches came from a steel factory in Tokio and were meant as recovery payments for the war damages. A walk over the bridge is hazardous because of loose girders and shelfs with large slits showing the river below. Some times each day a train slowly and carefully crosses the bridge.