overhead railway

Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.

All in all, approximately 13,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.

Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.

A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.

They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.

On his arrival at the local railway station he was met by his lordship in person.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.

Be that as it may, the Railway Clearing House, as a practical entity, came into being in 1842.

Four-wheeled railway carriages are, I was going to say, a thing of the past; but that is not so.