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Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a railway network with 960 stations.
The network, generally spanning north to south with branch lines to the east and west, is the second largest in Southeast Asia, and includes the
Yangon Circular Railway
Yangon Circular Railway ( my, ရန်ကုန် မြို့ပတ် ရထား ) is the local commuter rail network that serves the Yangon metropolitan area. Operated by Myanmar Railways, the 39-station loop system connects satellite t ...
which serves as a commuter railway for Yangon, the principal commercial city in Myanmar.
The quality of the railway infrastructure is generally poor. The tracks are in poor condition, and are not passable during the monsoon season. The speed of freight trains is heavily restricted on all existing links as a consequence of poor track and bridge conditions. The maximum speed for freight trains has been quoted as , suggesting that commercial speeds on this section could be as low as .
The network is run by Myanma Railways ( my, မြန်မာ့ မီးရထား, ; also spelled Myanmar Railways; formerly Burma Railways), a state-owned railway company under the
Ministry of Rail Transportation. In the 2013-14 fiscal year, Myanmar Railways carried about 60 million passengers (35 million in the circular railway and 25 million inter-city travelers) and 2.5 million metric tons of freight. Its rolling stock consisted of 384 locomotives, 1,600 passenger railcars, and 3,600 freight wagons.
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The network has steadily increased in size, from nearly in 1988 to in 2015.] Myanmar Railways is undertaking an ambitious expansion program that will add another to its network, making it spread in to including extensions to Myeik in the south, Kyaingtong
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in the east, Sittwe
Sittwe (; ; formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). Sittwe, pronounced ''sait-tway'' in the Rakhine language, is located on an estuarial island created at the confluence of the Kaladan, Mayu, and Lay Mro rivers emptyi ...
in the west.
History
Rail transport was first launched in British Burma on 2 May 1877 with the opening of the Rangoon
Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...
(Yangon) to Prome
Pyay (, ; mnw, ပြန် , ; also known as Prome and Pyè) is principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, north-west of Yangon. It is an important trade center for the Aye ...
(Pyay) line by ''The Irrawaddy Valley State Railway''.[Chailley-Bert 1894: 336] Unusually for a British colonial railway, it was built to . Subsequent development was to the same gauge, though the Burma Mines Railway opened in 1906 operated on a separate gauge. In 1884, a new company, ''The Sittang Valley State Railway'', opened a line along the Sittaung River
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from Yangon to the town of Toungoo
Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industry ...
(Taungoo) via Pegu
Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon.
Etymology
The Burmese name Bago (ပဲခူး) is likely derived from the Mon lang ...
(Bago). After the annexation of Upper Burma
Upper Myanmar ( my, အထက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Upper Burma) is a geographic region of Myanmar, traditionally encompassing Mandalay and its periphery (modern Mandalay, Sagaing, Magway Regions), or more broadly speak ...
following the Third Anglo-Burmese War
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of 1885, the Toungoo line was extended to Mandalay
Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census).
Mandalay was fo ...
in 1889. Following the opening of this section, the Mu Valley State Railway was formed and construction began on a railway line from Sagaing
Sagaing (, ) is the former capital of the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located in the Irrawaddy River, to the south-west of Mandalay on the opposite bank of the river. Sagaing with numerous Buddhist monasteries is an important religious and ...
to Myitkyina
Myitkyina (, ; (Eng; ''mitchinar'') Jinghpaw: ''Myitkyina'', ) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay. In Burmese it means "near the big river", and Myitkyina is on the west bank of t ...
which connected Mandalay to Shwebo
Shwebo ( my, ရွှေဘိုမြို့ ) is a city in Sagaing Region, Burma, 110 km north-west of Mandalay between the Irawaddy River, Irrawaddy and the Mu River, Mu rivers. The city was the origin of the Konbaung Dynasty, establi ...
in 1891, to Wuntho
Wuntho ( my, ဝန်းသို) or Waing Hso ( shn, ဝဵင်းသိူဝ်) was a native state of Upper Burma when Burma (Myanmar), was under British control. It had an area of around with 150,000 inhabitants and lay midway between ...
in 1893, to Katha in 1895, and to Myitkyina
Myitkyina (, ; (Eng; ''mitchinar'') Jinghpaw: ''Myitkyina'', ) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay. In Burmese it means "near the big river", and Myitkyina is on the west bank of t ...
in 1898. Extensions into southern Myanmar began in 1907 with the construction of the Bago-Mottama line. Passengers had to take a ferry
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over the Thanlwin River
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(Salween River) to Mawlamyaing
Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; , ; th, เมาะลำเลิง ; mnw, မတ်မလီု, ), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar (Burma), ''World Gazetteer'' south east of Yangon and south of Thaton, at th ...
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In 1896, before the completion of the line to Myitkyina, the three companies were combined into the Burma Railway Company as a state owned public undertaking. In 1928, the railway was renamed Burma Railways and, in 1989, with the renaming of the country, it became Myanma Railways.
The Japanese invasion during the Second World War
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caused considerable damage to the rail network. In 1942, the country had (route-km) of metre gauge track, but the Japanese removed about and, by the end of the war, only (route-km) was operational in four isolated sections. The Japanese were also responsible for the construction of the Thailand - Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, using the labour of Allied prisoners of war, many of whom died in the attempt. The "Death Railway" link with Thailand fell into disuse after the war and the section of this line in Burma was permanently closed.
Attempts at rebuilding the network began in the 1950s following Burmese independence. By 1961 the network extended to , and then remained constant until the opening of a line from Kyaukpadaung to Kyini in October 1970. In 1988, there were 487 operational railway stations over a long network. Since coming to power in 1988, the military government embarked on a railway construction program and, by 2000 the network had grown to (track-km) divided into 11 operating divisions. Between 1994 and 1998, the Ye-Dawei (Tavoy) railway in peninsular Myanmar was completed. With the construction of the road/rail bridge across the Ye River The Ye River is a river of Burma. It has its source in the Tenasserim Hills and drains into the Andaman Sea along the Mon State coast. Wa Kyun is an island located 3 kilometres west-northwest of the mouth of the Ye River.''Prostar Sailing Dire ...
in 2003 and the Thanlwin Bridge
Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyaing) was the longest bridge in Myanmar before the construction of Pakouku Bridge and connects the city of Mawlamyaing with Mottama. Constructed at the confluence of the Thanlwin River, the Gyaing River and the Attayan Ri ...
in 2008, the Southern peninsula became fully integrated into the Myanmar's railway network. Also in 2008/9, the Ayeyawady Valley route was extended north along the west bank of the river towards Pakokku in the far north of the country. The Kyangin-Okshippin (Padang) section of Kyangin-Thayet railway was opened in March 2008 and the Okshippin-Kamma railway section was opened in March 2009.
In 2016 a tram route opened in Yangon, on a former heavy rail freight route through the city streets. Rolling stock is a three car train purchased second hand from Hiroshima, Japan; it is the first , and a third rail
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was added to the line to accommodate it.
Lines
There are 960 active railway stations in Myanmar with Yangon Central and Mandalay Central as the twin anchors of the network. Recently, rail service has been extended along the Taninthayi coast to Mon State
Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...
and Tanintharyi Region
Tanintharyi Region ( my, တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; Mon: or ; ms, Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division, th, ตะนาวศรี, RTGS: ''Tanao Si'', ; ...
with Mawlamyine station as the southern hub. The railway lines generally run north to south with branches to the east and the west. The 140 km/h Dali–Ruili railway from China reaches the border at Ruili
Ruili (; tdd, ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥛᥣᥝᥰ; shn, မိူင်းမၢဝ်း; th, เมืองมาว; my, ရွှေလီ) is a county-level city of Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It ...
but does not connect to the Myanmar network.
Most of the routes are single track
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although large parts of Yangon-Pyay and Yangon-Mandalay routes are double track
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Overview
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Myanmar's railway network is divided into three broad groups of lines, the lines in Upper Myanmar, those in Lower Myanmar, and the Yangon Circular Railway that serves as Yangon's commuter rail.
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Rail lines in Lower Myanmar
Rail lines in Upper Myanmar
Yangon Circular Railway
Yangon Circular Railway is an 39-station loop system that connects Yangon's downtown, satellite towns and suburban areas. Around 150,000 people use the approximately 300 trains that run around the loop daily.
Proposed rapid transit
The Yangon Urban Mass Rapid Transit is due to begin construction of the east–west line from Hlaing Thayar in the west to Parami in the east in 2022, to be complete by 2027. This line is to be further extended east to Togyaung Galay station on the Yangon-Bago intercity rail line.
Lines under construction
The following four lines are currently under construction:
# Kyaukyi–Sinkhan–Bamow with a distance of as a part of Katha–Bamow railway project to allow the passengers and cargo to reach Bamow by rails rather by the Irrawaddy flotilla service. So far, the opened section is while the other is still under construction. The section under construction is the Kyaukkyi Bridge across Ayarwaddy Bridge at Sinkhan–Bamaw (). Construction started 16 May 2007 expecting to finish the project in 2018–2019. The opened sections are:
## Katha-Moetagyi (): construction started 16 May 2007 and opened 20 May 2010
## Moetagyi–Kyaukkyi (): construction started 16 May 2007 and opened 7 February 2014
# Natmouk- KanPyar with a distance of as a part of Pyawbwe-Natmouk-Magwe railway project. So far, the opened section is while the other are still under construction, being Kanbya-Natmauk. Construction started 10 November 2008, expecting to finish in 2017 - 2018. The opened sections are:
## Magwe-Kanbya (): construction started 10 November 2008, opened 19 December 2009
## Pyawbwe(Yan Aung) - Ywadaw (): construction started 10 November 2008, opened 16 January 2010
## Ywadaw-Natmauk (): construction started 10 November 2008, opened 16 March 2013
# Yechanbyin - Kwantaung - Kyaukhtu
Kyaukhtu or Kyaukhtu is a small town in Saw Township, Magway Region, Myanmar near the Chin Hills. Kyauktu (Kyaukhtu) is the second largest town in Saw Township. Kyaukhtu area is known as part of Southern Yaw by local people. It is like a gateway c ...
(Kyauk Taw) - Ann
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- Minbu
Minbu ( my, မင်းဘူးမြို့) is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar. , the city has an urban population of 22,962. The area consists of low plain-land towards the Ayeyarwady River, and of undulating country inland rising high ...
with a distance of as a part of Minbu-Ann-Sittway railway project to allow the connection to Port of Sittway. So far, the opened section is while the other is still under construction, one of them being Yechanbyin-Pardaleik (). Construction started 15 February 2009. The other sections which are waiting for budget and contract signing is Pardaleik-Kwan Taung () and Kyaukhtu-Ann-Minbu () with a hope to finish the project in 2021 - 2022. Sittwe-Kyaukthu-Zorinpui railway is part of India-Myanmar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
The Kaladan Road Project is a US$484 million project connecting the eastern Indian seaport of Kolkata with Sittwe seaport in Rakhine State, Myanmar by sea. In Myanmar, it will then link Sittwe seaport to Paletwa in Chin State via the Kaladan ri ...
. From Minbu
Minbu ( my, မင်းဘူးမြို့) is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar. , the city has an urban population of 22,962. The area consists of low plain-land towards the Ayeyarwady River, and of undulating country inland rising high ...
it will connect to 1,215 km long Kyaukpyu port-Minbu-Kunming
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high-speed railway being planned by China. The opened sections are:
## Sittwe-Yechanbyin (): construction started 15 February 2009, opened 19 May 2009
## Kwan Taung- Ponnagyun-Yotayouk (): construction started 15 February 2009 and opened 15 May 2010
## Yotayouk-Kyaukhtu (): construction started 16 May 2010, opened 11 April 2011
# Einme-Nyaundong with a distance of as a part of Pathein(Begayet) – Einme - Nyaundong Yangon (Hlaing Thayar) to allow the connection between Yangon with Port of Pathein. The section under construction is Einme-Nyaungdong-Hlaingthayar (). Construction started 1 December 2009 with a hope to be done in 2017 - 2018. So far, the opened section is while the other is still under construction. The opened sections are:
## Pathein(Begayet)-Einme (): construction started 1 December 2009 and opened 20 March 2011
Rolling Stock
In 2005, the Japan Railways Group and other, privately owned, Japanese railway companies donated rolling stock to Myanmar Railways, including former JNR-era DMUs
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, railcars and passenger coaches. China donated 130 units of meter gauge carriages in 2006 and another 225 in 2009. In early As of 2011, Myanma Railways operated 389 locomotives and 4,673 railway coaches.
Locomotives
In 1999, Myanma Railway had 201 diesel locomotive
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s, and a further 88 were on order. Up to 1987 the main suppliers were Alstom
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, Krupp
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and various Japanese companies, but since then orders have been placed with China because of Myanmar's lack of access to hard currency. In 2004, Myanma Railway had approximately 40 oil-fired steam locomotive
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s, of which about a dozen were serviceable and saw occasional use on goods, local passenger and tourist trains. Up to three heavy repairs are performed per year using locally manufactured parts. Between 1988 and 2009, the railway imported 96 diesel locomotives, 55 from China and 41 from India and, by December 2009, it had a total of 319 locomotives. In October 2010, the railway acquired 30 more locomotives from China.[
In 2014, Myanma Railway acquired a ]Hokutosei
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train set from Japan after the withdrawal of the Hokutosei Blue Train Service in preparation of the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen
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which opened in 2016. The locomotive acquired was the former DD51 Diesel Locomotive along with the former Blue Trains that were formerly operated by JR Hokkaido
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In March 2018, India handed over 18 diesel-electric locomotives to Myanmar under an Indian line of credit
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. These 18 locomotives were fitted with the microprocessor control based system. 1350 HP AC/DC main line diesel locomotives with a maximum speed of 100 km/h had been customised for the Myanma Railways. From the Indian side, RITES
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Ltd., an Indian government enterprise, has been a principal partner of Myanma Railways and was involved in the supply of these 18 locomotives.
Coaches
In 1999 Myanma Railways had 868 coaches, with a further 463 on order. However many branch lines have only lightly built permanent way, and on these routes traffic is in the hands of a fleet of more than 50 light rail-buses built from lorry
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parts in MR's workshops. These are powered through their rubber-tired road wheels, and usually haul three small four-wheel coaches converted from goods wagons. Small turntables
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are used to turn the rail-buses at the termini.
Wagons
There were 5,187 freight wagons in 1999, with 1,188 due to be delivered. The majority of goods trains on lines without significant gradients run without any train brakes, as most of the serviceable wagons have been cannibalised and now lack vacuum hoses. Goods trains up to 600 tonnes are braked by the locomotive only, and operate at a maximum speed of . If the train is particularly heavy the wagons at the front will be fitted with hoses for the duration of the trip. On the steeply-graded ghat sections all wagons will be braked.
Railway links to adjacent countries
Apart from the wartime Thailand–Burma Railway the country has never had any international links. However:
* China–Myanmar–Thailand railway to Dawei: In 2010 and 2011, international lines north to China and east to Thailand from a new port and industrial area at Dawei
Dawei (, ; mnw, ဓဝဲါ, ; th, ทวาย, RTGS: ''Thawai'', ; formerly known as Tavoy) is a city in south-eastern Myanmar and is the capital of the Tanintharyi Region, formerly known as the Tenasserim Division, on the northern bank of ...
were proposed.
*China–Myanmar railway from Yangôn to Kunming: *Dali to Ruili in China is under construction and expected to be completed in 2023. But the construction of the section in Myanmar has not been decided and is still under negotiation*. Serves new Bay of Bengal port. From Yangôn
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to Kunming
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in China
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.
*India–Vietnam railway via Myanmar–Thailand–Cambodia: On 9 April 2010, the Government of India
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announced that it is considering a Manipur
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to Vietnam
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link via Myanmar, although this would require a break-of-gauge
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(Burma)/ (India). India also proposed that these two proposed links be connected, allowing trains from Delhi
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to Kunming
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via Myanmar, but requiring break-of-gauge
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from in Burma
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to in India
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.
*India-Sittwe Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project: Sittwe
Sittwe (; ; formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). Sittwe, pronounced ''sait-tway'' in the Rakhine language, is located on an estuarial island created at the confluence of the Kaladan, Mayu, and Lay Mro rivers emptyi ...
–Kyaukhtu
Kyaukhtu or Kyaukhtu is a small town in Saw Township, Magway Region, Myanmar near the Chin Hills. Kyauktu (Kyaukhtu) is the second largest town in Saw Township. Kyaukhtu area is known as part of Southern Yaw by local people. It is like a gateway c ...
(Kyauk Taw)–Zochachhuah
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/Hmawngbuchhuah
Hmawngbuchhuah is a village in Lawngtlai Block in Lawngtlai district in the state of Mizoram, India.
Location
147 km from State capital Aizawl. It lies on the border between Myanmar and India. It is on the east bank of Sekulh Lui River whi ...
– Sairang
Sairang is a census town in Aizawl district in the Indian state of Mizoram.
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with a distance of as part of India–Myanmar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
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. 90 km Sittwe
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–Kyaukhtu
Kyaukhtu or Kyaukhtu is a small town in Saw Township, Magway Region, Myanmar near the Chin Hills. Kyauktu (Kyaukhtu) is the second largest town in Saw Township. Kyaukhtu area is known as part of Southern Yaw by local people. It is like a gateway c ...
railway in Myanmar already exists, 200 km long Kyaukhtu–Zorinpui in Myanmar is planned but not yet surveyed, 375 km long Zochawchhuah(Zorinpui)–Sairang railway in India is being surveyed since Aug-2017.
Summary
The proposed international rail links are:
*Same gauge
**China
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(opened 2021)
**Thailand
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**India
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See also
* List of railway stations in Myanmar
* Transport in Myanmar
The government of Myanmar (earlier known as Burma) has two ministries controlling transportation, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Rail Transport.
Road
''total:''
''paved:''
''unpaved:'' (2006)
The main highways are as fol ...
* Burma Mines Railway The Burma Mines Railway is a gauge railway in Myanmar for the transportation of locally mined silver and lead ore to a smelter at Namtu.
The line runs from Namyao, on the Mandalay - Lashio branch of Myanmar Railways, via Namtu to Bawdwin an ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Myanmar Railways (English version)
Myanmar Railways (Burmese version)
Myanmar railways, Ministry of Transportation (Burmese version)
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