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This Infamous ‘Death Railway’ Station, Built by Forced Labor From Prisoners of War and Civilians in World War II, Was Just Revealed in Thailand
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- Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
- Occasional dry spells have lowered water levels enough to expose parts of the historic site, but its remains have never been seen as clearly as they are today.
- Historians are flocking to the station equipped with old aerial photographs and metal detectors before seasonal rains and the dam’s finished maintenance may submerge the station again by August.
Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
Add as preferred source. An abandoned section of the railway in Myanmar photographed in 2015 Phyo WP via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 An infamous depot along Thailand’s so-called “Death Railway,” a former train line built under perilous conditions by Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and regional laborers during World War II, has—for a limited time—emerged.
Once a major stop along the 257-mile-long railroad that connected Thailand (then Siam) with Myanmar (then Burma), the Nithe Station has been largely unreachable for decades, submerged beneath a reservoir in the country’s western Kanchanaburi province.
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