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==Conservation Railway==
In 1896-97 the Municipality decided to use the railway for the disposal of the town’s rubbish and the line was altered between Stockade Road and Tamwe to accommodate the [[ Rangoon Municipality Conservation Railway|Rangoon Municipality Conservation Railway ''See separate page'']]
==Quarry Railways==
By 1908-09 the ‘Earth Railway’ was continuing to work as before but extended to include two quarries :-
* ‘Kemmendine Quarry’ that served West Rangoon <ref name =YA17/>
* ‘Necropolis Quarry’ that served East Rnagoon Rangoon <ref name =YA17/>
Other quarries were developed:-
* ‘Mayangyoung Quarries’ at Mokalpin, where a quarry was operated by a Mr S P Das for the supply of 400,000 cubic feet (11,300 cu metres) of stone for road metalling for town roads. A light railway was laid between the quarries and the [[Burma Railway]](BR) Pagu-Moulmein line. The gauge and motive power of the line are unknown <ref name =MO01>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry MO01 page ....</ref>.
==Later Developments==
By 1909-10 the eastern section of the railway was chiefly occupied with finishing the reclaiming of Hooper’s Yard for the [[Rangoon Port Commissioner's Railway|Rangoon Port Commissioner]] and raising the land between Bulloch Brothers Mill and Monkey Point Battery for the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation. This was completed in March 1911 as there was no more land to be reclaimed in the area <ref name =YA17/> .
In the western section the main work was the finishing the Lanmadaw Canal and raising of Keighley Street and Phoongyi Street followed by reclamation at end the Timber Depot in the Sanchaung Section for the building of a sewerage works and its beds, completed in 1911 <ref name =YA17/>
