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It had not been xxv A DESERT RAILWAY 207 surveyed, a large force of Dervishes might conceiv- ably lurk on the other side to hold us off from Abu Hamed, and several expert engineers shook their heads as to the feasibility of laying the railway line at all. But the Sirdar had balanced the chances carefully, and having made up his mind, steeled it against argument. He would travel by rail from Haifa to Abu Hamed, and on a 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge.
A minor but important controversy existed over the gauge ...; Cromer urged that, for practical and pecuniary reasons, a 3 ft. 3 in. (metre) gauge should be employed. There were already great quantities of metre -gauge sleepers in Egypt, a number of locomotives of that calibre were ready, and more could be quickly and cheaply obtained ; but the Sirdar was obdurate just because he was looking ahead. Cecil Rhodes's scheme for the Cape to Cairo railway was then taking shape, and Kitchener was determined to do his share from the northern end. Though the Alexandria-Cairo-Luxor gauge was the normal European one of 4 feet 8| inches, the Luxor-Assuan line, then being built, was 3 feet 6 inches, and he foresaw the eventual junction of the future Cape-Abu Hamed-Halfa line with the Luxor-Assuan line, which would necessitate the conforming of the Assuan-Alexandria line to the regular South African standard.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It had not been xxv A DESERT RAILWAY 207 surveyed, a large force of Dervishes might conceiv- ably lurk on the other side to hold us off from Abu Hamed, and several expert engineers shook their heads as to the feasibility of laying the railway line at all. But the Sirdar had balanced the chances carefully, and having made up his mind, steeled it against argument. He would travel by rail from Haifa to Abu Hamed, and on a 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge.
A minor but important controversy existed over the gauge ...; Cromer urged that, for practical and pecuniary reasons, a 3 ft. 3 in. (metre) gauge should be employed. There were already great quantities of metre -gauge sleepers in Egypt, a number of locomotives of that calibre were ready, and more could be quickly and cheaply obtained ; but the Sirdar was obdurate just because he was looking ahead. Cecil Rhodes's scheme for the Cape to Cairo railway was then taking shape, and Kitchener was determined to do his share from the northern end. Though the Alexandria-Cairo-Luxor gauge was the normal European one of 4 feet 8| inches, the Luxor-Assuan line, then being built, was 3 feet 6 inches, and he foresaw the eventual junction of the future Cape-Abu Hamed-Halfa line with the Luxor-Assuan line, which would necessitate the conforming of the Assuan-Alexandria line to the regular South African standard.
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