English: George Nathaniel of Curzon - Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian question - Orders had been given to the Decauville and Maltseff firms for the supply of small locomotives and wagons, and of 66 miles of light movable narrow-gauge rails.' It was thought that these might be used for the immediate conveyance of stores to the front, and that the success or failure of the smaller experiment would then determine the policy of extending the broad-gauge line, which from motives of economy it was decided to lay at once through the belt of sandhills contiguous to the shore.