Burma Road (disambiguation)

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The Burma Road is a famously twisty mountain road between Burma and China

Burma Road can also refer to:

• Burma Road (Israel), a makeshift Israeli track inspired by the route into China meant to break the 1948 siege on Jerusalem

• A now closed section of railway line in Ireland linking Collooney to Claremorris (part of the route now known as the Western Railway Corridor). Known as the Burma Road due to the hilly, boggy conditions through which the line was built. ^[1]

• Rice pudding, a name given to it by the British Army, origins are from the Army serving in India. ^[2]

• The main passage way, Deck 3, on former Mackenzie Class ships (HMCS Mackenzie (261), Saskatchewan (262), Yukon (263) and Qu'Appelle (264)) that served in the Canadian Navy until the late 1990s. The passage way connected all parts of the ship and was used to "store" the ship with supplies.^{[citation needed]}

• Burma Road in Nassau, Bahamas, was the scene of rioting in 1942, when workers building an airport demonstrated for better pay and conditions. ^[3] This was the inspiration for Ronnie Butler's 1967 song Burma Road.

• Route 1006 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, a winding, narrow road which connects the borough of St. Clair, Pennsylvania to the Morea Road (State Route 1008), passing by Locust Lake State Park, Mountain Valley Golf Course and Bendinsky Airport.

• The side of the opposite towpath is known as the "berm" along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park .A stretch past the Widewater portion of the canal at approximately miles 12.5-13.8 has a road through the forest on the berm side (actually, running on top of the Washington, DC aqueduct). It is puningly known as the "Burma Road."

• The interior road that runs the length of the Fire Island National Seashore or more specifically, the rough dirt and sand road which runs from the end of the pavement at Robert Moses State Park, past the Fire Island Lighthouse, to Kismet.

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