The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between...
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Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a 6,207.644 km (3,857 mi) railway network with 960 stations. The network, generally spanning north to south with...
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Railways of Burma may refer to: Burma Railway - a railway connecting Thailand and Burma constructed by the Japanese using POW labor during World War II...
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The Burma Railway Memorial is a memorial near Mornington Crescent tube station, in Camden High Street, London, to the thousands of British civilian and...
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along this route Yunnan-Burma Railway Burma Road (Israel), wartime makeshift named for the original Burma Road Voy: Burma Road "Burma Road – Britannica Online...
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The Yunnan–Burma railway (alternatively: Burma–Yunnan railway) was a failed British project to connect far southwest China's Yunnan province with the recently...
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Siam Burma Death Railway is a 2014 Singaporean documentary film written and directed by Kurinji Vendan about the Asian forced-laborers who worked on the...
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The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ทางรถไฟไทย-พม่า) is a museum and research centre in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It is privately funded...
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the Burma Railway. Myanmar Railways has expanded its network somewhat since 1988. Rail transport was introduced in Burma in May 1877 (when Lower Burma was...
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The Burma Mines Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway in Myanmar for the transportation of locally mined silver and lead ore to a smelter at Namtu...
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The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II took place over four years from 1942 to 1945. During the first year of the campaign...
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Fielding in 1954. The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as its historical setting, and is partly based on Pierre...
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Hellfire Pass (category Burma Railway)
Japanese as Konyu Cutting) is the name of a railway cutting on the former Burma Railway ("Death Railway") in Thailand, which was built with forced labour...
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bridges spanning a river as part of the Burma Railway, also called the "Railway of Death" or "Thai-Burma Death Railway", due to the many lives lost in its...
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Thailand in World War II (section Burma Railway)
meanwhile stationed 150,000 troops on Thai soil and built the famous Burma Railway through Thailand using Asian labourers and Allied prisoners of war,...
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not worth it, except for the Thailand–Burma Railway Centre, which gives a good introduction of the Burma Railway and its history. There are also two war...
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The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily...
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tower to the north. During the Japanese-directed construction of the Burma Railway in World War II Nong Pladuk was the site of one of the Japanese POW...
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build the Yunnan–Burma railway but abandoned the effort in 1941 with the outbreak of World War II. In 1936, Vietnam's main railway, from Hanoi to Saigon...
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Kanchanaburi (section Death railway)
that Asian forced labourers and Allied POWs, building the infamous Burma Railway, constructed a bridge, an event fictionalised in the films The Bridge...
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Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (category Burma Railway)
(POW) cemetery for victims of Japanese imprisonment while building the Burma Railway. It is on the main road, Saeng Chuto Road, through the town of Kanchanaburi...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (category Burma Railway)
screenplay are almost entirely fictional, but use the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as their historical setting. The cast includes William...
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experiences as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Decades later, he finds his growing celebrity at odds with his feelings...
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Yangon–Mandalay Railway (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်-မန္တလေး ရထားလမ်း) is a railway line in Myanmar. Operated by Myanma Railways, it is the second railway line in Myanmar after...
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The Burma Bridge may represent: The bridges of the Burma Railway, built by Japanese during World War II, especially those over the River Kwai (Kwai Bridge)...
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Alistair Urquhart (category Burma Railway prisoners)
to work on the Burma Railway, built by the Empire of Japan to support its forces in the Burma campaign and referred to as "Death Railway" because of the...
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Japanese communications via the Burma Railway and the port of Rangoon and only 30,000 of the intended reinforcements reached Burma. Under pressure of events...
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for the Kempeitai (military secret police) at the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand, and spent most of his later life as an activist for post-war...
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Jack Jennings (veteran) (category Burma Railway prisoners)
60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar from 1942 to 1943. Jennings was born in Old Hill, Staffordshire...
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British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British...
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