MEET IN THE MIDDLE

Construction started at both ends, with the intention of joining up at a midpoint along the planned route. The two sets of railway builders met up just south of the Three Pagodas Pass, a gap in the Tenasserim Hills, marking the modern-day borders between Thailand and Myanmar. Today, there is a memorial to the thousands of Australian and other Allied citizens who died building the railway, and a short original section can still be seen.