Yunnan–Burma railway

The British project was working against the background of the successful French Kunming-Haiphong railway that had been established on the nearby Hanoi to Kunming route from 1904–1910, some 30 years earlier.

Maria Bugrova's article The British expeditions to China in XIX century discusses the question of a railway to Yunnan from Burma.

Additional American personnel such as Paul Stevenson and Victor H. Haas accepted commissions with the United States Public Health Service and were sent to assist with malaria control during the construction effort.

In 1943 fighting occurred between Japanese and Chinese forces aided by US Air Support along the Yunnan-Burma railway: Construction was never resumed.

Though signs here and there attest to its presence, there is little actual rail left, and the line has all but vanished from local history and barely graces itineraries of all but the most determined travellers.