Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi

Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi - darkometer rating : 7 - The newest of the Death Railway museums in Kanchanaburi , Thailand , and without question by far the best of the lot. If you have only time for one such museum, make it this one. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations More background info: see under Death Railway for some general information and background info about the topic. The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre is mainly the work of one visionary and Death Railway researcher/historian: an Australian called Rod Beattie, who had been surveying the rail line and history of its construction for a considerable amount of time before finally opening this new museum and research centre in 2003. It's state-of-the-art. The quality and accuracy in the display of facts and exhibits is markedly better than in the other two Death Railway related museums in Kanchanaburi . It's also the most comprehensive exhibition on the topic anywhere in the world, surpassing the Hellfire Pass Museum , although that has the added bonus of being at an authentic site of the former railway line. Incidentally, however, it was also Rod Beattie who cut through and surveyed that stretch of the former railway line, which had become completely overgrown. In that sense both the Railway Centre and the Hellfire Pass memorial site are related. Together they form the best you can get as a dark tourist on the trail of the Death Railway. Note that the Centre is not only a museum but also a research centre, holding, e.g. rare out-of-print books written by survivors. Its resources are also incredibly valuable to all those who had relatives who were involved in the Death Railway 's story and who are seeking information.