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THE BRIDGE ON THE

RIVER KWAI

Post Year 1999 - Filmed on location by Colin Carr

Ken Roberts

"Friend" of Ramsgreave & Wilpshire

"THE BRIDGE AT R & W"

Produced & Directed by Colin Carr

(RVR Member - "Our Man in Thailand")

 

An RVR - NBK Production

 

 

 

 

Columbia Tri-Star Release

 

Available on DVD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Hellfire Pass memorial plaque seen in June 2004
Hellfire Pass seen during a visit in June 2004
The trackbed at Hellfire Pass, June 2004

Hellfire Pass memorial plaque, June 2004

Broken compressor drill in the rock at Hellfire Pass, June 2004
A bit of the original track, June 2004
Hellfire Pass seen from above, June 2004

Timber trestle bridge immediately southeast of Tham Krasae Station, June 2004

Creeping over an original wooden trestle bridge at 10km/h, 'Death Railway', June 2004

The Bridge on the River Kwai, the rounded spans are original, June 2004

Commonwealth War Cemetary at Kanchanaburi, November 1999.

About 16000 POWs died building the line, as well as 100,000 Asians

A gravestone

A Buddhist monk has no trouble ministering to dead Christians

Kanchanaburi, train control equipment, including token issuing machine

Crossing the River Kwai behind a Japanese steam locomotive.

Steam excursions on the line were withdrawn at the end of 1999

Paused for lunch at Wang Pho, a couple of kilometres short of the end of the line at Nam Tok

 
It is believed that the locomotives were war reparations from Japan
Modern Traction, the Bangkok train leaves Wang Po
Leaving Tham Krasae running tender first
The trestle bridge near Tham Krasae - speed limit 10km/h

"The bearing's hot, but we'll make Kanchanaburi with lots of thick heavy oil"

The Bridge on the River Kwai

with a steam train crossing it.

The second man collects the token for the single line section as loco No. 4050 leaves Kanchanaburi for Nam Tok in charge of service no.259,                            November 2001

Kanchanaburi Train Spotters' Club? Young monks watch a Nam Tok train crossing the Bridge On The River Kwai November 2001 

 

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

The RAF took out two spans in February 1945

 

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