The track is developed into a walkway with side platforms. This allows crossing the railway bridge on foot. These platforms are useful as viewpoints and for avoiding trains. A small tourist train runs back and forth across the bridge. Spectacular light and sound show is the highlight of the festival. Kanchanaburi Town is located kms to the west of Bangkok. Regular buses ply the route from Southern Bus Terminal in Bangkok.
Both air condition and non air condition buses are available throughout the day for the three hour journey. Those with own vehicles may use the newly constructed expressway from Pinklao.
The updated timings for buses and trains are available at Tourism Authority of Thailand offices. Special trains run from Bangkok for tourists during weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, the train leaves Bangkok at 6. It stops at Bridge River Kwai for 10 minutes. What to see around Kanchanaburi. The Bridge on the River Kwai. The Wampo Wang Po Viaduct. Hellfire Pass Konyu Cutting. Suggested itineraries. Watch the videos. Train travel in Thailand.
Map of train, bus, ferry routes in Southeast Asia. It's more appropriate - and much more fun - to take the train from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi and the Bridge on the River Kwai using the Death Railway itself. No reservation is necessary, they cannot sell out, just turn up, buy a ticket and hop on any time before it leaves. In fact, sitting next to an open window whilst clickety-clacking through the Thai countryside is easily the most pleasant way to reach Kanchanaburi. There's no buffet car, but vendors walk up and down the train selling soft drinks and pre-packed fruit and food.
The slices of Pomelo are lovely, not too sweet and not too sour. At weekends there's also a tourist day excursion train. Just remember the trains from the South can be 20 to 40 minutes late or more, so don't plan any tight connections.
Map of train routes in Southeast Asia. Billed as the Trans-River Kwai Death Railway it's exactly the same as the regular baht cars, but you get a seat cushion, small boxed snack, water and a certificate. You buy tickets from a special booth at the opposite end of the platform from the regular ticket office, next to the Tourist Police booth.
There's one other way to visit the Bridge on the River Kwai, and it's the luxury option. For this luxury option, see www. Kanchanaburi - this is the area's main town, with Allied war cemeteries. Most hotels are located here. The Bridge On the River Kwai - the Bridge is 5 km beyond central Kanchanaburi, and is now surrounded by cafes, shops and small museums. You can walk over the Bridge watch out for trains!
Wampo viaduct Wang Po - also built by prisoners of war, and also still in use by regular passenger trains. Here there is a museum, and a 7 km stretch of the trackbed beyond Konyu Cutting has been cleared of jungle by the Australian government as a memorial, of which 4 km is currently open to the public. You can walk this 4 km section if you like, a moving and highly-recommended experience. The Japanese used Thai forced labour to construct the section from Nong Pla Duk to Kanchanaburi, and Allied prisoners of war for the section from Kanchanaburi onwards to Burma.
The line was completed in , and like all the railways in Burma and Thailand, it was built to the metre gauge, much narrower than European standard gauge.
Passenger trains still run from Bangkok to Nam Tok, but the section from Nam Tok to Moulmein is disused and the track has been lifted.
There is a slight technical problem with the Bridge on the River Kwai: It crosses a river all right, but not the River Kwai. Pierre Boulle, who wrote the original book, had never been there. He knew that the 'death railway' ran parallel to the River Kwae for many miles, and assumed that it was the Kwae which it crossed just North of Kanchanaburi. He was wrong - It actually crosses the Mae Khlung. When David Lean's blockbuster came out, this gave the Thais something of a problem.
Thousands of tourists flocked to see the Bridge on the River Kwai, and they hadn't got one, all they had was a bridge over the Mae Khlung. So, with admirable lateral thinking, they renamed the river. The Bridge on the River Kwai is about 5 km from the centre of Kanchanaburi. By all means wait for one of the three daily passenger trains, all of which call at the River Kwae Bridge station, but it's best to take a cycle rickshaw. The Bridge is now surrounded on the Kanchanaburi side by a museum, cafes, shops and a couple of steam locomotives on static display.
You're free to walk across the bridge on the wooden planks, but remember to stand aside for the passenger trains when one comes along. There were actually two bridges here, both built by prisoners of war - The first wooden bridge was completed in February , superseded a few months later by the steel bridge which you see today.
The curved steel bridge spans are original, and were brought from Java by the Japanese. However, the two straight-sided spans come from Japan, and were installed after the war to replace spans destroyed by allied bombing in Make sure you ride the train between Kanchanaburi or River Kwae Bridge station and the current terminus of the operational railway at Nam Tok.
The river in Sri Lanka where the film was set is called the Kelani, which has become a tourist attraction for its white-water rapids. The scene in which the replica bridge is blown up has become one of the most famous in cinematic history. The actual bridge on the River Kwai is located in Thailand, and stretches over a part of the Mae Klong river, which was renamed Khwae Yai Thai for big tributary.
The railway route, which ran through Burma and Thailand, had been planned by the British. The region was seized by the Japanese in , and they then set about making preparations to build the railway. Sri Lanka in drive to boost tourism. Tourists see Sri Lanka war damage.
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