This railway, opened in 1910, had a gauge branch line from Caoba to Shiping which operated 0-10-0 tender locos built by Baldwin Locomotive Works [REF].
The meter 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 be run from Kunming to Saigon, as meter gauge was used in both these countries.