| | This is not just a railway history. Besides being the story of the Nitrate Railways Company, its predecessors and successors, it also notes the three narrow gauge railways built to carry nitrate in an area which the Nitrate Railways Company imagined was theirs by right. Information is given on operating methods out of the sea ports of Iquique, Pisagua, Junin, Caleta Buena and Patillos, all of which had steep climbs to the nitrate fields. Lines are described with relevant dates and subsequent history. Rolling stock is covered in a small way but locomotives are listed in detail and new lists are published which have taken many years to assemble – again previous lists all contain errors and doubts. Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 – Establishment of the Railways from Iquique to Pisagua through the Nitrate Zone
- 2 – The National Nitrate Railways Company of Peru
- 3 – The Nitrate Railways Company Ltd(The English Company)
- 4 – A Journey from Iquique to Primitiva in 1889
- 5 – Iquique and Pisagua – Terminii of the Nitrate Railways
- 6 – The Nitrate Railways Company – Early history and involvement with Colonel North (The Nitrate King)
- 7 – Nitrate Railways Company Locomotives
- 8 – The Nitrate Railways Company in the 20th Century before the arrival of the metre Gauge
- 9 – The Metre Gauge to Iquique – The F.C.Norte De Chile
- 10 – The Nitrate Railways under state ownership
- 11 – Ex-Nitrate Railways Company locomotives in the days of state control
- 12 – Narrow Gauge Competition
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