article_snippet: Book detailing plans to build a railway in Burma is an account of a survey carried out to assess the feasibility of laying tracks from China to Rangoon in 1888 - 54 years before Eric Lomax was forced to work on the Death Railway in Burma.
article_snippet: One of the maps in Eric Lomax collection that's from a Victorian book that details plans to build a railway in Burma .
article_snippet: a Victorian book that details plans to build a railway in Burma is an account of a survey carried out into the possibility of laying tracks from China to Rangoon in 1888 - 54 years before Eric Lomax was forced to work on the Death Railway in Burma .
article_snippet: the book, Railway Connexion of Burmah and China is quite poignant when you consider what happed to Eric Lomax's in the Second World War. '
article_snippet: The rare copy of the book written by Archibald Colquhourn and Holt Hallett explores the possibility of building a railway between Rangoon, Burma, and south western China.
article_snippet: The British had also looked into building a railway between Burma and Thailand but the route of the line - through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too dangerous and difficult to undertake.
highlights_snippet: Book detailing plans to build a railway in Burma is an account of a survey carried out to assess the feasibility of laying tracks from China to Rangoon .
  