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'' '''Note.''' ''*''The '''Decauville Portable Railway System''' was a manufacturing company founded manufactured and supplied by Paul the French '''Decauville et Compagnie''' company using the 60-cm(1846–1922600mm), a French pioneer in industrial railways[[Rail_gauge|Rail Gauge]]. Decauville's major innovation was ' *''Following the use of ready-made sections of lightFirst World War, narrow gauge track fastened the British used the term 'Decauville' to steel sleepers; this track was portable and describe light railways that could be disassembled rapidly laid and transported very easily <ref name=Wiki>moved, none of the equipment had anything to do with [[https://enDecauville et Compagnie]].wikipediaThes railways used ex-War Department 60cm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) stock.org/wiki/Decauville Wikipedia "Decauville"These we have termed as a '''[[Light Portable Railway|Light Portable Railway -see separate page]]; Retrieved 11 Mar 2017</ref> ''' ''

Starting [[Decauville et Compagnie|'''Decauville et Compagnie''' (''see separate page''),]] was a manufacturing company founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported very easily <ref name=Wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decauville Wikipedia "Decauville"]; Retrieved 11 Mar 2017</ref>  '''Decauville Portable Railway System''', starting from 1875 the company produced track elements, locomotives and wagons. These were exported to many countries <ref name=Wiki/>.

<blockquote>"The English army has succeeded in establishing a portable railway on several points of the Bolan Pass. This railroad is of the Decauville system, formed in sections of small steel rails, which can be put down or taken up very quickly. This ingenious railway - which has been used considerably for work on the Panama Canal and for the transportation of sugar cane in Australia and Java - has become the indispensable means of transport in all wars. It is at present being used in Tonquin and Madagascar by the French army, and is also being used on the Red Sea by the Italian army. When the Russian government commenced the war in Turkestan, in 1882, it bought one hundred versts, or about 66 miles, of the Decauville railroad, which Gen. Skobeleff used with great success for the transportation of potable water and for all the provisions for his army. This railroad was taken up as the army marched forward, and when the Russians advanced recently, in Afghanistan, the little railway appeared at the advance posts, and was described to the English army by the officers who watched the operations for the Afghans. An order for a similar apparatus was given by the English government to M. Decauville, directions being given that the road should be of the same type as that furnished to the Russians. The object of this was, probably, that any sections of road which might be captured from the Russians during the war could be used by the English. In this last order there was one problem which was very difficult to solve; all the material had to be carried by elephants, and they wanted a locomotive. M. Decauville had the locomotive made in two parts, the larger of which weighed on 3,978 pounds(1404kg) , the greatest weight that an elephant can carry."</blockquote> == Important Uses of the Decauville System==[[File:Bolan Pass Railway Construction.jpg|thumb|Bolan Pass Railway Construction - early 1880's using Elephants to transport the Decauville railway components]]'''[[Bolan Pass Railway Construction]]'''