Talk:North-South Railway, Vietnam
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[edit] History of the Trans Indo-China Railway
I have seen several attemps to create ( by American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, and German experts a complete locomotive list of the steam and diesel locomotives which have been working on this line. Non of them complete.
One mystery is the Kenia - Uganda Railway Garratt locomotives sold to French Indo-China in 1939. Also the German locomotive builder of Hanomag from Hannover delivered three classes of steam locomotives ( according their factory catalogue ) to Cambodia, but these locomotives seems to have gone later to the Trans Indo-China Railway. Then came the Japanese in June 1940 and many Japanese Imperial State Railways tank locomotives were regauged in Hainan Island ( Samah Motive Power Depot ) from 1067 mm ( 3ft 6in ) Cape gauge to one meter ( 1000 mm ) standard French Colonial Railway gauge and were shipped to Tonkin. These Japanese steam locomotives appeared only after April 1941 in French Indo China ( Tonkin ), but not in Annam or Cochin-China. Then there is a mystery of Burma Railways Garratt type locomotives used at Mandalay - Lashio branch line, which according to one Japanese source, were transfered in 1942 to either Hanoi - Nanning or Trans Indo-China Railway. Then the Imperial Japanese Southern Army`s Railway Department ( allocated then in Sai-Gon ) transfered some steam locomotives from Malaya, and Dutch East India to Cambodia, Siam, and the French Indo-China. All this form one of the last unsolved questions; which locomotives actually where allocated there. Even the French do not know the answer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.118.82 (talk) 15:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
