The plan for today was to travel on the Death Railway to its terminus in Nam Tok, and then take a bus to the Hellfire Pass Museum, which commemorates the building of the Thailand-Burma railway. Unfortunately I managed to miss the train. Having been told that the train is always reliably 1 to 2 hours late, I had adopted a relaxed schedule. However, on this occasion it was only half an hour late and so I managed to miss it by five minutes. So the journey to the museum was on the local bus, which was quicker than the train, but missed out on some of the scenic train route.
The museum exhibition itself duplicated much of what I had seen the previous day in the Death Railway Museum in Kanachanaburi, but its main selling point was that it provided access to some of the most challenging engineering feats on the rail route, including the notorious Hellfire Pass. This is the deepest cutting on the route and was given its name on account of the flickering lights that the PoW workers used to illuminate their activities as they toiled though the night.
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