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Rangoon to Mandalay was a 700 km (435 mi) trip, and during the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885, 9,000 British and Indian soldiers were transported by a fleet of paddle steamers ("the old flotilla" of the poem) and other boats to Mandalay from Rangoon. Guerrilla warfare followed the occupation of Mandalay, and British regiments remained in Burma ...
January 28 – British India – A mail train from Mandalay to Rangoon (now Yangon), both now in Myanmar, is derailed by sabotage to the track at a bridge between Yindsikkon (now Yin Taik Kone) and Kyauktaga. The locomotive and four cars fall into the river 50 feet (15 m) below, killing 54 people and injuring at least 30.
2004: The 1.5-kilometre (1 mi) Hsinbyushin-Chindwin River section of the Mandalay-to-Pakokku line opens. The Yangon-Mandalay line is modernised and double-tracked. 2005: The Ye-Dawei line opens. 2006: The Thanlwin Bridge and Mawlamyine railway station open, connecting the line on the southern bank of the Salween River with the rest of the ...
The Yangon–Mandalay Expressway (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်–မန္တလေး အမြန်လမ်း) is a tolled expressway in Myanmar (Burma) that connects the country's largest city Yangon and second largest city Mandalay.
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 .
Bo Shwe Yan finally escaped into the jungles near Panlaung while the princes retreated back into Mandalay by 1887. A plot was hatched in 1887 in Mandalay to put Saw Yan Naing on the throne. Nevertheless, the plan was foiled once again by the British, who arrested the ringleaders while Saw Yan Naing was dispatched to Rangoon. [10]
It was already too late. The Japanese armies in Central Burma had lost most of their equipment, and their cohesion. They would be unable to stop the Fourteenth Army exploiting to within striking distance of Rangoon. Furthermore, with the loss of Mandalay, the Burmese population finally turned against the Japanese.
Partly because the railway to Mandalay followed the path of the Sittaung River rather than the Irrawaddy River, the company stayed relevant and useful well into the twentieth century, even after independence from Britain. [4] Former Irrawaddy Flotilla Company building in Yangon, which now houses the Inland Water Transport