Inside Wat Wang Wiwekaram
Lion head ant the entrance of Wat Wang Wiwekaram
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Dakshin Kali
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World Peace Pond at Swayambhunath
My friends eating Kuai-Tiao Ruea
The Floating Market ตลาดน้ำ in Mueang Boran
Shop for selling Kaffae Khao Shong
Westminster Bridge and The Parliament
The rocks befor Tramar village
On the rooftop of a Gompa in Tsarang
Arrive in Tsarang
Changing of Guards at Buckingham Palace (2)
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More picture of the busy market
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der Chiemsee von der Gscheurerwand
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Gauri Kund lake at the Drolma La pass
Crossing the Tsang Po (Brahmaputra)
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110 Million Years Ago - T. rex was everywhere
Lan Hin Taek
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Landscape in northern Thailand
St Jame's Park (1)
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Inside the Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery
Westminster Abbey (1)
The Portuguese Kings of England
Hmong teeny
Wat Choumkhongsourintharame
Staircase from the south east side
Changing of Guards at Buckingham Palace (1)
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Hellfire pass
Hellfire Pass was a particularly difficult section of the line to build due to it being the largest rock cutting on the railway, coupled with its general remoteness and the lack of proper construction tools during building. A tunnel would have been possible to build instead of a cutting, but this could only be constructed at the two ends at any one time, whereas the cutting could be constructed at all points simultaneously despite the excess effort required by the POWs. The Australian, British, Dutch and other allied Prisoners of War were required by the Japanese to work 18 hours a day to complete the cutting. Sixty nine men were beaten to death by Japanese and Korean guards in the six weeks it took to build the cutting, and many more died from cholera, dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion. However, the majority of deaths occurred amongst labourers whom the Japanese enticed to come to help build the line with promises of good jobs. These labourers, mostly Malayans (Chinese, Malays and Tamils from Malaya), suffered mostly the same as the POWs at the hands of the Japanese. The Japanese kept no records of these deaths.
The railway was never built to a level of lasting permanence and was frequently bombed by the Royal Air Force during the Burma Campaign. After the war, all but the present section was closed and the line is now only in service between Bangkok and Nam Tok.
The railway was never built to a level of lasting permanence and was frequently bombed by the Royal Air Force during the Burma Campaign. After the war, all but the present section was closed and the line is now only in service between Bangkok and Nam Tok.
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