This is a train going accross the bridge over the river kwai. Five minutes previous we were on the far side of the bridge. Our guide gave us some useful information: if the train comes and you are on the bridge, don't jump off. I couldn't help but imagine him on a previous occassion having to dive in and fish tourists out of the river.

Later we joined this train for the rest of its journey along part of the original death railway.

We visited the Jeath museum as part of this tour, which was on the site of a POW camp and it was dedicated to the men who worked on the death railway. It was there that I learned there had never been a bridge over the river kwai. It must have been an odd feeling for those men to put back breaking hard work into this bridge and see it destroyed time and time again.