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This article is about the railway constructed by Japan during World War II. For articles relating to the railways of the country Burma see Rail transport in Burma.The Burma Railway also known as the Death Railway the Burma-Siam Railway the Thailand–Burma Railway and similar names was a 415 kilometres (258 mi) railway between Bangkok Thailand and Rangoon Burma (now Yangon Myanmar) built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II.