Currently, there are no trains in the Falkland Islands, but there were narrow gauge railways.
The most famous railway line in the Falkland Islands was intended to carry coal from the port to the the generating station at the radio transmitter. The narrow gauge railway was built between Camber Depot at Navy Point, the site of naval jetty on the north side of Stanley Harbour to Moody Brook. Total length of the railway line was approximately 5.6 km, rail gauge 610 mm.
The line is known as the Camber Railway. It was also the southernmost railway line in the world.
The Camber Railway was opened in 1915. The trains were operated by two steam locomotives imported from Great Britain and three wooden coal wagons. As you can see in the archival photos, there were also passenger trains.
The narrow-gauge railway was probably closed down in the 1920s. Some researchers date the end of the Camber Railway to the 1940s.
Two narrow-gauge railways operated around the whaling station on New Island from 1909 to 1915.
There were also short railways on East Falkland used for transport goods from ships to shore. These railways were hand powered or horse drawn.
There were also short narrow gauge railway lines in the Falkland Islands used for carry stone from quarries. These were industrial railways, the stone was then loaded onto cars after several hundred meters. No traces of them have remained, and there is no information about the date in which these lines operated.
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