Dismantled
When it first opened in 1893, the line ran just 4km across the island of Don Khôn. Its primary function was to transport specially-prefabricated steamships which could be dismantled on one side of the Khôn Waterfalls and reassembled on the other, thereby linking Saigon and Phnom Penh with Pakse, Vientiane and Luang Prabang.
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