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Hellfire Pass Memorial Plaque, 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, on '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Steam excursions on the line were withdrawn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 few kilometres short of the end of the line at Nam Tok

 

 

Modern Traction - the Bangkok train

leaves Wang Po

Leaving Tham Krasae

running tender first

"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