Thailand-Burma Railway Centre
The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre in Kanchanaburi tells the story of the Death Railway through exhibits and research, next to the war cemetery where many workers are buried.
Thailand-Burma Railway Centre
The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre is the documentary museum of the railway the Japanese army built between Thailand and Burma in 1942 and 1943, using Allied prisoners of war and far larger numbers of conscripted Asian labourers. Tens of thousands died in its construction, and the line is remembered as the Death Railway.
The centre is organised as a research institution rather than a display of relics: galleries follow the route and the chronology, with maps, models, photographs, personal records and the medical and engineering detail of how the line was built and at what cost. Staff maintain records used by families tracing individuals.
It stands directly opposite the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, and the two are normally visited together, with the bridge over the Khwae Yai a short distance away.
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- Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (Don Rak) — The main Allied cemetery of the Burma Railway, holding nearly seven thousand graves in the centre of Kanchanaburi.
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