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Rail transport in Fiji exists to move cut sugar cane to crushing mills. There used to be two horse-drawn street tramway systems, some other passenger systems, an underground mine system, and some tramways on construction projects. == Cane Trains == Tramways have been used to transport sugar cane from the fields to the mill since 1876 when a horse tramway was constructed on the Selia Levu estate on the island of Taveuni. The Holmhurst Mill on Tavenui had tramways from 1882 of narrow gauge. A tramway was also built on Mago Island. Most cane tramways were of gauge, on the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Steam engines were used, later replaced with diesel engines. Most of the mills and tramways were built by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR), an Australian-owned company, and transferred to the Fiji Sugar Corporation in 1973, when CSR withdrew from Fiji. Many lines were on road reserve provided by the government, and combined road-rail bridges were common. Some passenger services were provided, such as the famous Free Train from 1915, with one or two trains a week from Lautoka to Kavanagasau and Rarawai on the Rarawai-Kavanagasau Light Railway. In 1988, according to ''Cane Train'', there were of permanent cane railway in Fiji, for the Lautoka and Rarawai, and Penang mills on Viti Levu, and the Labasa Mill on Vanua Levu. Image:Fiji Sugar Locomotive 22 crossing the Sigatoka bridge.jpg|Loco no 22 crossing Sigatoka bridge with a long train of empty wagons, near the end of the South Coast line Image:Fiji Sugar Locomotive 21 at Nadi Back Road crossing.jpg|Loco no 21 crossing Nadi Back Road into the cane fields with a few empty wagons. The main line runs parallel to the road on left Image:Fiji Sugar Locomotive 11 enters Lautoka with full load.jpg|Loco no 11 entering Lautoka with a long train of approximately 45 loaded wagons 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rail transport in Fiji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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