Don Det–Don Khon railway
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The Don Det–Don Khon railway (sometimes spelled "Don Deth–Don Khone") was a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi)-long narrow-gauge portage railway on the islands of Don Det and Don Khon, part of the Si Phan Don (Four Thousand Islands) archipelago in Champasak Province of southern Laos.[1][2] Built by the Mekong Exploration Commission, the railway was operated by the Lao State Railway. It opened in 1893, and closed in 1940 or 1949.
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The railway was initially laid to 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge, and may have been partially (or fully) converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge. It facilitated the transportation of vessels, freight and passengers along the Mekong River. The Don Det–Don Khon islands railway was the only railway built, opened and operated in Laos until 2009,[3] when a line was opened between Nong Khai, Nong Khai Province in Thailand and the Thanaleng railway station in Dongphosy (near Vientiane).[4]