Classic route
Death Railway
Bangkok (Thonburi) → Nam Tok · Thailand
Death Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 194 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- State Railway of Thailand
- Train
- SRT ordinary (diesel)
- Countries
- Thailand
- In service since
- 1943
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built by Allied POWs and Asian labourers in 1942–43; trains still cross the River Kwai bridge and creep over the cliff-hugging Wang Pho viaduct.
How this line was checked
- The 132 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13327676 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: State Railway of Thailand — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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