Nong Pladuk Junction railway station is a railway station in Nong Kop Sub-district, Ban Pong District,

Ratchaburi Ratchaburi ( th, ราชบุรี, ) or Rajburi, Rat Buri) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in western Thailand, capital of Ratchaburi Province. Ratchaburi town covers the entire ''tambon'' Na Mueang (หน้าเมือง) of Mueang ...

. It is a class 3 railway station and is from

Thon Buri railway station Thon Buri railway station ( th, สถานีรถไฟธนบุรี) formerly known as Bangkok Noi railway station (สถานีรถไฟบางกอกน้อย), is a railway station in Siriraj Sub-district, Bangkok Noi D ...

. It is on the Southern Line, and is the junction of minor branch lines, the Nam Tok Line (

Death Railway The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a railway between Ban Pong, Thailand and Thanbyuzayat, Burma (now called Myanmar). It was built from 1940 to 1943 ...

) and Suphan Buri Line.

History

Nong Pladuk Junction railway station was opened in June 19, 1903 as part of the first phase of the Southern Line construction between Thon Buri and

Phetchaburi Phetchaburi ( th, เพชรบุรี, ) or Phet Buri () is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in southern Thailand, capital of Phetchaburi Province. In Thai, Phetchaburi means "city of diamonds" (''buri'' meaning "city" in Sanskrit). It is approx ...

Burma Railway

During the Second World War, Nong Pladuk Junction became the start of the Death Railway, which ended

Thanbyuzayat Thanbyuzayat ( my, သံဖြူဇရပ်မြို့; mnw, ဇြပ်ဗု, "Reid, Robert and Grosberg, Michael (2005) ''Myanmar (Burma)'' (9th edition) Lonely Planet Publications, Footscray, Victoria, Australiapage 159 ) is a town in ...

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. Construction of the railway was coordinated by the

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

, permitted to build due to an

armistice An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. It is derived from the La ...

signed with

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Camp Nong Pladuk Camp Nong Pladuk (also: ''Nompuradokku'') was a Japanese prisoner of war transit camp during World War II. It was located about five kilometres from the main railway station of Ban Pong near a junction station on the Southern Line to Bangkok. N ...

was constructed near the junction station to serve as a transit camp. On 16 September 1942, construction started at both ends of the planned railway line. At the end of the war, the railway was confiscated by the British, who later sold it to the State Railway of Thailand. In June 1963, a railway line from Nong Pladuk was opened to Suphan Buri by

Sarit Thanarat Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat (also spelt ''Dhanarajata''; th, สฤษดิ์ ธนะรัชต์, ; 16 June 1908 – 8 December 1963) was a Thai general who staged a coup in 1957, replacing Plaek Phibunsongkhram as Thailand's prime m ...

Train services

* Ordinary 261/262 Bangkok–Hua Hin–Bangkok * Local 485/486 Nong Pladuk–Nam Tok–Nong Pladuk * Commuter 355/356 Bangkok–Suphan Buri–Bangkok * Ordinary 251/252 Bang Sue Junction–Prachuap Khiri Khan–Bang Sue Junction * Ordinary 254/255 Lang Suan–Thon Buri–Lang Suan * Ordinary 257/258 Thon Buri–Nam Tok–Thon Buri * Ordinary 259/260 Thon Buri–Nam Tok–Thon Buri * Ordinary 351/352 Thon Buri–Ratchaburi–Thon Buri

References

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