Classic route
Death Railway
Bangkok (Thonburi) → Nam Tok · Thailand
- Distance
- 194 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 45 min
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- State Railway of Thailand
- Train
- SRT ordinary (diesel)
- Countries
- Thailand
- In service since
- 1943
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.
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