File:The Sumatra Railway Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1568298.jpg

Summary

Description	English: The Sumatra Railway Memorial Built by 5,000 prisoners of war and 30,000 locals, the 140-mile Sumatra railway was intended to move coal and troops across the island from Pakenbaroe on the north-east coast to meet up with an existing railway at Muaoro in the west of the island. The railway was completed on VJ Day, 15th August 1945. It was only ever used to transport POWs out of the area and then quickly became overgrown by the jungle. http://www.friendsofnma.org.uk/rail3.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1492191.stm On the right is the Far East Prisoners of War Memorial Building, which is a harrowing experience to visit and graphically reflects the failure of Japan to ratify the 1929 Geneva Convention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Convention_(1929)
Date	31 October 2009
Source	From geograph.org.uk
Author	Trevor Rickard
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField	Trevor Rickard / The Sumatra Railway Memorial / CC BY-SA 2.0
InfoField	Trevor Rickard / The Sumatra Railway Memorial

Camera location	52° 43′ 45″ N, 1° 43′ 58″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	52.729150; -1.732700

Object location	52° 43′ 46″ N, 1° 43′ 56″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	52.729320; -1.732200

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