Death Railway & Hellfire Pass

No admission feel, but donations requested (most visitors leave B100). Two trains leave Kanchanaburi daily at 10:45 and 16:37, with return trains at 0528 and 1300, approximately 2hrs. From the Nam Tok Station, it is another 14km to the Hellfire Pass and Museum, for which you need a songthaew (B400 tern, 20 mins one way. To reach the pass by road take a northbound bus about 80km on Route 323 to a Royal Thai Army farm at the Km 66 marker. A track here leads through the farm to a sleep path to the pass. There are numerous organized tours to Hellfire Pass.

Only 130km of the Death Railway remain, from Nong Pradook station in the neighboring province of Ratchaburi through to the small town of Nam Tok. Form neighboring province of Ratchaburi through to the small town of Nam Tok the railway sweeps through a tranche of dramatic scenery stopping at the ancient Khmer site of Muang Singh en route. The name for the pass was bestowed by one of the prisoners of war who, down on his comrades working below at night by the glow of numerous open fires, marked that the sight was like ‘the jaws of hell’. Australian Rod Beattie, with the support of Australian government, has developed the pass as a memorial cutting a path through the pass and building a museum. Clear, well-written was panels surrounded by photographs, along with some reproduction objects, provide objects, and provide a very moving account of the cutting of the pass. From here it is possible to walk a fair distance of the railway route (the rails no longer exist); stout shoes are recommended. There are two routes: the Konyu Cutting or the full 4-5kn circuit that ends at Hellfire Pass itself.