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Hellfire Pass

Hellfire Pass

HellFire Pass Interpretive Centre

Timeline Type: The Center Page

Initial concept by the British Government

Large group of prisoners of war marching during WWII

Japanese invasion

Drawing of prisoners of war being directed onto a railway carriage.

Japanese decision and planning

A group of prisoner of wars carrying sleepers along the railway line.

Planning the railway

A group of people standing in front of a hut.

Arrival of the prisoners

A group of prisoner of wars marching to a new camp site.

Work begins on Burma-Thailand Railway

Hellfire Pass

Prisoners of war laying rails in rows for railway construction

Completion of the Railway

A train on a curved trestle railway line bridge.

Railway use

Road through flat ground destroyed by fire.

End of World War II