The Thai-Burmese Railway, also known as the Death Road, is a railway between Bangkok and Rangoon, built by Imperial Japan during World War II.
The 415 km long road connecting Bangkok and Rangoon (Yangon) The Death Railway was built by the Japanese in 1943 with the participation of 12,000 Japanese soldiers and hundreds of thousands of unskilled laborers and prisoners of war, many of whom died during construction work.
The total length of the bridges on the road is 13 kilometers.
Currently, the entire 130-km stretch of road is used, including several unstable wooden bridges and connecting Nam Tok Sai Yok station in Kanchanaburi province with the picturesque Sai Yok Noi waterfall.
Annually in Thailand passes the week of the bridge over the river Kwai. At this time, various exhibitions are organized and color music shows are organized. The main event is the re-enactment of the bombing of the bridge. In the fifties of the twentieth century, the film was shot, which is called “The Bridge over the River Kwai”. The basis of it and lay the historical events that occurred during the Second World War.
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