Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Sino-Vietnamese Railway is a 855 km railway built by France during 1904-1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam with Kunming, Yunnan, China. The section within China from Kunming to Hekou is known as the Kunming-Hekou Railway, and is 466 km long. The section within Vietnam is 389 km long. The railway used 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3/8 in) gauge due to the mountainous terrain along the route. Currently it is the only main line in China using metre gauge, but may be converted to standard gauge. The railway was opened in 1910. There was a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge branch line from Jijie to Gejiu which operated 0-10-0 tender locos built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. The metre gauge section was originally administered in more or less the same way as the Indochinese networks, and it was physically possible for through trains to run from Kunming to Singapore, as metre gauge was used in Malaya also.

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