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 Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma (now called Myanmar).

2025年2月13日 · Burma Railway, railway built during World War II connecting Bangkok and Moulmein (now Mawlamyine), Burma (Myanmar). The rail line was built along the Khwae Noi (Kwai) River valley to support the Japanese armed forces during the Burma Campaign.

2025年2月13日 · Burma Railway - Prisoners, Forced Labor, Suffering: Allied POWs experienced inhumane treatment and endured torture by Japanese forces. Not only were the long days of the POWs filled with harsh labour and punctuated by physical abuse, but also the prisoners were provided with grossly inadequate food.

2025年3月21日 · From October 1942 to October 1943 the Japanese army forced about 60,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) – including 13,000 Australians and roughly 200,000 civilians, mostly Burmese and Malayans – to build a railway linking Thailand and Burma. The railway has entered the Australian consciousness as a byword for courage and resilience in the ...

2017年8月9日 · The Japanese now needed a safer supply route between Burma (Myanmar) and Siam (Thailand), which is why in June 1942 they started construction on a railway line of 258 miles (415 kilometers) connecting both countries: the …

2024年2月9日 · The Death Railway is the nickname given to the Thail-Burma Railway due to its construction which led to the death of thousands of POWs and Asian labourers between 1942 and 1943. The Imperial Japanese Army led the construction of over 400 km of …

Rail transport in Myanmar (then Burma) began in 1877. Three private rail companies were nationalised nineteen years later. During the Japanese occupation of Burma, Allied prisoners of war were forced to build the Burma Railway. Myanmar Railways has expanded its network somewhat since 1988.

2025年1月30日 · The Death Railway, officially called the Burma Railway, was a 415 km railway which connected Thailand’s Ban Pong with Myanmar’s Thanbyuzayat (then called Burma). The creation involved humungous human cost, which is why …

"The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Thailand–Burma Railway and similar names, was a 415 kilometres (258 mi) railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma campaign.

The Burma Railway Memorial is a memorial near Mornington Crescent tube station, in Camden High Street, London, to the thousands of British civilian and military prisoners of war in the Far East who died of disease, starvation or maltreatment while building the Burma Railway during the Second World War.