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Thirty Inches Apart - Taiwan
A companion article ' Forty-two Inches Apart - Taiwan and Japan' is in 'Images of Railways Elsewhere'.
Taiwan Railway Administration's main public system was 42 inches - 3'6'' -1067mm gauge with an isolated 30 inch gauge line on the east coast from Hualien to Taitung, which I didn't visit and understood was diesel worked by the mid-1970s.
Most steam locos on the 2'6'' public railway from Hualien to Taitung were tanks, but it also had four 2-8-2 tender engines, out of service by the late 1960s. The same type worked in South Korea which is where this picture was taken.
I did go to other 30 inch - 2'6'' - 762mm gauge railways mentioned in the sub pages to this page - Ali Shan Railway; Lotung Forestry Railway; Taiwan Sugar Corporation lines.
Footnotes:
A book entitled 'Narrow Gauge Railways of Taiwan - Sugar, Shays and Toil' by Michael Reilly was published in the UK in 2017, is very well illustrated and has a wealth of in-depth information about the railways in this article.
https://citycat.neocities.org/indexeng.htm is 'CITYCAT'S RAILWAY WEBSITE' and has lots of information about all Taiwan's main line and industrial railways and locomotives, well worth a look.
The article 'Round the Isle of Taiwan' by M H Baker published in the September 1966 'Railway Magazine' contains an excellent account of the author's journey on the Taitung – Hualien line.
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