Chemin de iron of Nauru
The railroad of Nauru is a Railway located at Nauru and forming the entirety of the rail network of this country. It consists of a single line with Narrow gauge railway 3,9 kilometers length and only intended for the transport of the freight, more precisely the Phosphate. Its construction played a big role in the exploitation of this ore which was the single resource of Nauru during all the 20th century until its quasi exhaustion at the beginning of the 21e century.
Presentation
The railway line connects the phosphate stock, located on the central plate of Nauru, with the treatment plants of this ore on the coast. The layout follows a curve of the district of Anibare until that of Aiwo while passing by those of Uaboe, of Nibok, Denigomodu and Buada. It circumvents thus the depression of the Lagune Buada by north and the west and the Command Ridge by the east and the south.
The phosphate, in charge in the Coach S on the level of the storage section on the plate, was conveyed to the factory where it reprocessed then was transhipped on Phosphatier S by conveying belts which reach broad thanks to structures Cantilever S in order to being exported.
History
This line is built by German Engineer S whereas Nauru belongs to the German colonial Empire. It is brought into service by the Pacific Phosphate Company in 1907, one year after the beginning of the exploitation of phosphate discovered in 1901. It is initially conceived with a spacing of 610 millimetres. The traction of the coaches is ensured by locomotive vapor : three of type 0-4-0WT Krauss then three others provided in 1908 by the Orenstein & Koppel,
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