High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Don Det – Don Khon (sometimes spelt Don Deth – Don Khone) railway was a seven kilometre (4.34 mile) long narrow gauge portage railway located on Don Det – Don Khon islands, part of the Siphandon (sometimes spelt Si Phan Don) or Four Thousand Islands archipelago in Champasak Province, southern Laos. Built by the Mekong Exploration Commission, the railway was operated by Lao State Railway authority, opening in 1893 and closing either in 1940 or 1949. The railway was initially laid to Decauville-standard 600 mm (1 ft 11 5?8 in) gauge; later it appears the railway was partly or wholly converted to (possibly) meter gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3?8 in). The railway aided the transportation of vessels, freight and passengers along the Mekong River. The Don Det – Don Khon islands railway held the title for the only railway ever built, opened and operated in Laos until 2009, when a railway was opened between Nong Khai, Nong Khai Province, Thailand and...

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