The famous wooden bridge depicted in the film adaptation of The Bridge Over The River Kwai was never a real bridge.

Next to that was a wooden trestle railway bridge, still partially preserved. Both bridges were completed in 1943, and repeatedly bombed by British and U.S. warplanes.

The most famous of the bridges on the “Death Railway” spanned the Khwae Noi River — the River Kwai — in Kanchanaburi, a western province of Thailand bordering Myanmar (Burma).

KANCHANABURI: A New Zealand ... Trains move slowly on the 400-metre wooden railway bridge, so passengers can enjoy the view of the River Kwai before reaching Tham Krasae station.

Today, authorities in Kanchanaburi are promoting the bridge over the River Kwai, built on the Death Railway and then bombed by the Allies in 1944, as a tourist site.