Memorial Start "Death Railway Line"

This memorial marks the start of the Burma Railway (1942-1943).

In order to try to ensure supplies could reach the Japanese troops fighting in Burma, the Imperial Japanese Army decided to build a railway to link the port of Bangkok to Burma. They revived a plan that had been considered but rejected decades earlier by the British.
In June 1942, they began work at both ends of the proposed line. The Thai end was at NongPlaDuk (Ratchburi) and the Burmese end at Thanbyuzayat. These two met in October 1943 at KonKoita in Thailand.
The Thai-Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, operated until it was severed by British Royal Air Force bombers in June 1945.
Today, a museum dedicated to the Railway and the workers – Allied POWs and Asian Forced Laborers – who worked on this project marks the start point in Burma.

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