Thonburi Railway Station

Replaced in 2003 by the Bangkok Noi train station 1 km. further down the road, the 1900 Thonburi station was the terminal of Thailand's western railway route. Japanese troops used it as a base in Thailand during WWII and it is most famous for its connection to Kanchanaburi, where they used prisoners-of-war and forced labour to build the so-called "death railway" to supply their troops in Burma. The station was one of the many targets bombed by the Allied Forces and rebuilt afterwards in the same style. map