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Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a 6,207.644 km (3,857 mi) railway network with 960 stations. [1] The network, generally spanning north to south with branch lines to the east and west, is the second largest in Southeast Asia, [ citation needed ] and includes the Yangon Circular Railway which serves as a commuter railway for Yangon, the ...
The Mu Valley State Railway undertook the construction of this line, embarking on the project simultaneously from both the north and south. Utilizing the Ayeyawaddy River for transportation, the necessary materials and rolling stock were delivered to Myitkyina , paving the way for the inauguration of the line's initial segment between Myitkyina ...
Shwenyaung–Mong Nai Railway is a 1000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) meter-gauge railway line, originally designed to connect Shwenyaung to Taunggyi, Banyin, and Mong Nai in Shan State, Myanmar. Plans were made to extend the line from Mong Nai to Kyaingtong , though this extension was never completed.
Yangon–Mandalay Railway (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်-မန္တလေး ရထားလမ်း) is a railway line in Myanmar. [1] Operated by Myanma Railways , it is the second railway line in Myanmar after the opening of the Irrawaddy Valley State Railway .
For nearly 80 years Tanintharyi Line remained isolated from the other railway lines in Myanmar due to Salween river. The section between Mottama and Mawlamyine was operated a ferry until 2006. On April 17, 2006, Thanlwin Bridge was opened crossing Salween river and the isolation was resolved.
The four main lines are the Northern Line, which terminates in Chiang Mai; the Northeastern Line, which terminates at Ubon Ratchathani and the Lao border in Nong Khai Province; the Eastern Line, which terminates at the Cambodian border in Sa Kaeo Province;, and the Southern Line, which terminates at the Malaysian border in Yala and Narathiwat ...
In August 2015, India railway completed a survey for a possible new route extension from Sairang to Hmawngbuchhuah [44] on Mizoram's southern tip on the border of Myanmar, where at nearby Zochachhuah [42] village the National Highway 502 (part of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project) enters Myanmar, leaving a possibility open for yet ...