Re: Why one narrow guage versus another?

Thanks Wayne and Chris,

Don't hear much about the 42" gauge lines in Australia, although the proliferation of wider gauges was known to have been a result of the original chief engineer's preferences. Sounds like Australia in the early days operated more as independent states rather than as a unified nation when it came to railways.

The East African Railways, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, were meter gauge and were supplied with equipment and operating personnel from India. I think the Indian influence was a bigger factor than the fact that Tanganyika was originally a German colony.

Michael Allen