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    The Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway was a 19.7 km (12¼ miles) long industrial railway between Flying Fish Cove and South Point on Christmas Island...
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  • Sons of Bristol built a 0-8-0 tender locomotive for the Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway in 1931. The "Fortes Rampes" Class of 0-8-0 was designed...
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    now-defunct standard gauge 18 km (11 mi) Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway from Flying Fish Cove to the phosphate mine was constructed in 1914. It was...
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  • for the New Zealand Railways Department from 1955 1 for the Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway Tasmanian Government Railways DP class Railcars for...
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    Banaba (redirect from Banaba Island)
    during its first 13 years. The Pacific Phosphate Company (PPC) built the Ocean Island Railway and mined phosphate from 1900 to 1919. In 1913, an anonymous...
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    1968 Stocklist Mercian, Vol. 1 No. 3 "Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway New 0-8-0 Locomotive". martynbane.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2016. "Birmingham...
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    with crushed phosphate rock which was obtained cheaply from Nauru Island in the West Pacific. The resulting mix was called Super Phosphate. The largest...
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  • hospitals (1979–1981) Commission of inquiry into the viability of the Christmas Island phosphate industry (1979–1980) Royal Commission on the activities of the...
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    their divergent local histories. Christmas Island was then locally administered by a phosphate company and Cocos Islands were the property of a civil family...
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    its phosphate mining operations (this action was probably the most distant military activity carried out by Germany during the entire war). Phosphates are...
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