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Burma-Siam Railroad

LC control no.n 83201886
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingBurma-Siam Railroad
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Variant(s)Burma-Thailand Railway
Burma Railway
Death Railway
Burma-Siam Railway
Thailand-Burma Railway
Beginning date1943
Ending date1947
Found inGordon, E. Through the valley of the Kwai, 1983, c1962 (subj.) (name not given in CIP material)
LC data base, 7/27/83 (hdg.: Burma-Siam Railroad)
The Burma-Thailand Railway, 1993.
Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 21, 2014 (Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Burma-Siam Railway, the Thailand-Burma Railway, and similar names; 415-kilometre railway between Bangkok and Rangoon, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943, to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II; the line was closed in 1947)