Burma Railway
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The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or locally as the Death Railway, is a 415 km railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma.
The railway bridge over the Khwae Yai River in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
Civilian workers during the construction of the railway between June 1942 and October 1943.
The British government sold the Thai section of the Burma Railway to the Thai government for a total of 50 million baht.
An abandoned section of the Death Railway in Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar (Burma).
Hellfire Pass
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Hellfire Pass, known locally as Chong Khao Kard and in Japanese as Konyu Cutting, is the name of a railway cutting on the former Burma Railway in Thailand, which was built with forced labour during Wo
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…States for more than two years after their capture. Several museums are dedicated to those who perished building the railway. The largest of these is at Hellfire Pass (north of the current terminus at Nam Tok), a cutting where the greatest number of people died. An Australian memorial is at Hellfire Pass. One museum…
A portion of Hellfire Pass in 2023
The Australian memorial in the cutting
Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre in 2023
Hellfire Pass memorial plaque