Talk:Burma Road

Projected Lashio - Kunming Railway

I have seen in couple of old maps dating 1938 and 1940 a projected metre gauge railway connection Lashio (Burma) with Kunming (Yunnan, China). It is known that the British even transfered from Singapore two steam locomotives to Lashio to be used on this railway building. Also Chinese started to extend the Haiphong - Hanoi - Kunming Railway toward Burma in 1938. Whas this a prelude before the project was abandoned after the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Northern French Indo-China ( Tonkin ) in September 1940? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.194.209 (talk) 20:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Churchill's Chagrin?

It's not clear from the article why WC was "chagrined" at having to reconquer Burma.--Sreifa (talk) 08:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Not part of the Burma Road

Though widely believed to be a part of the Burma Road, the photo on the upper left corner, the notorious "21 curves", is, in fact, not on the Road. The eastern terminal of the Burma Road is in Kunming, Yunnan province while the "21 curves" is in Guizhou province, which is in the east of Yunnan, and, thus, beyond the Burma Road. For further information, please check out this Chinese web page: http://yinqiao.ycool.com/post.2674544.html Ctchou (talk) 21:12, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

I modified the caption of the photo of "The 24 Turns" to give the correct information. --Roland 00:31, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the "Twenty-Four Bends" 二十四道拐 is in Qinglong County in Guizhou province 貴州省晴隆縣, but look at Google Maps. It isn't anywhere near Chongqing (Chunking). Actually, the "24 Bends" is somewhere near the middle of the road between Guiyang (Kweiyang), the capital of Guizhou province, and Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. Chongqing is farther north from Guiyang, although the road through Guiyang is one of the mountain roads that eventually connects Kunming to Chongqing. Kunming is the terminus of the Burma Road, the Ledo "Stillwell" Road, and "the Hump" Himalayan air route. The "China Convoy" of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) routinely traveled this road. Also, "24 Bends" has a Chinese Wikipedia page. Maybe there should be an English page too... winstonho0805 (talk) 08:06, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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