Nam Tok Railway

Back on the bus and off to ride a train.

Nam Tok is the current terminus for daily trains from Bangkok on the Death Railway line. They are old trains and no air con, so it was very hot and uncomfortable.

The train line has many names, The Burma Railway, the Death Railway, the Siam–Burma Railway, the Thai–Burma Railway. It is a 415-kilometre railway between Thailand, and Burma, built by Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II using POW's. This railway completed the rail link between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar).

The line was closed in 1947, but the section between Nong Pla Duk and Nam Tok was reopened ten years later.

Not sure than this train was worth the long drive in the bus to get there, the very hot conditions on the train and then bus ride back to the resort, but we can say we did it.Read more