North Borneo Railway

                 NORTH  BORNEO RAILWAY                    The 1880's  brought  great change  to Borneo as the British  North  Borneo Company sold acres and acres on interior  lands to planters for the cultivation of crops.Many found their plots of land in the middle of tropical jungles with no possible form of communiction or  transportation.Earlier  plantations  transported their  harvests  on foot or on animals.A railway into the heart of Borneo became necessary.In 1896 ,the railway from the interior  reached Weston,the new port on Brunei Bay.                                 However  the water at Weston were found to be too shallow for a wharf and so it was devided  to extend the line northwards  to Jesselton  .The locomotive used were steam-powered. Today  one can journey  back into the colonial days of  British North Borneo on board ,the   North Borneo Railway's mid -20th century  British'Vucan' steam engine train. Built and  operated to the highest international service standard ,the train,which can  take 180 passengers, consists of five  refubbished colonial style carriages. Thank you my friend  out there.