Amazing DEATH RAILWAY and RIVER KWAI BRIDGE Kanchanaburi

You can support @bangkokandmore here: paypal.me/bangkokandmore You can support @bangkokandmore here: paypal.me/bangkokandmore You can support @bangkokandmore here: paypal.me/bangkokandmore The DEATH RAILWAY and RIVER KWAI BRIDGE Kanchanaburi is the topic of today's video. The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Siam–Burma Railway, the Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan from 1940–1944 to supply troops and weapons in the Burma campaign of World War II. This railway completed the rail link between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma. The name used by the Japanese Government is Tai–Men Rensetsu Tetsudō (泰緬連接鉄道), which means Thailand-Burma-Link-Railway. The Thai portion of the railway continues to exist, with three trains crossing the original bridge twice daily bound from Bangkok to the current terminus at Nam Tok. Most of the Burmese portion of the railroad (the spur from the Thai border that connects to the Burma mainline to Moulmein) fell into disrepair decades ago and has not seen service since. Between 180,000 and 250,000 civilian laborers and over 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were subjected to forced labor during its construction. During the railway's construction, around 90,000 Southeast Asian civilian forced laborers died, along with more than 12,000 Allied prisoners. The bridge on the River Kwai Bridge over the River Kwai by Leo Rawlings, a POW who was involved in the line's construction (sketch dated to 1943). It depicts four POWs, waist-deep in the water, carrying a large log during the first bridge's construction. One of the most notable portions of the entire railway line is Bridge 277, the so-called "Bridge on the River Kwai", which was built over a stretch of the river that was then known as part of the Mae Klong River. The greater part of the Thai section of the river's route followed the valley of the Khwae Noi River (khwae, 'stream, river' or 'tributary'; noi, 'small'. Khwae was frequently mispronounced by non-Thai speakers as kwai, or 'buffalo' in Thai). This gave rise to the name of "River Kwai" in English. In 1960, because of discrepancies between facts and fiction, the portion of the Mae Klong which passes under the bridge was renamed the Khwae Yai (แควใหญ่ in the Thai language; in English, 'big tributary'). =========================================== Subscribe for bangkokandmore: https://goo.gl/ixAIuR =========================================== Street Food Festival Kanchanaburi: /watch/kcoCXG5g8fzgC #bangkokandmore

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