Abstract
In this paper, railway construction of the Kyushu Private Railway in Japan and technology transfer from the Germany will be explained. The early stage of Japanese railway construction, many foreign engineers employed, and many of them were Englishmen, for railway construction of Main Island. But, railway construction of Kyushu and Hokkaido Island were different from it. The former introduced German technology, and the latter employed American one. The nationalization of Japanese main private railways as Nippon Railway and Sanyo Railway from 1906 to 1907, these different technologies will be generalized as Japanese own railway technology after establishment of the Railway Agency of Japan (R.A.J.) in 1908. The contents of this paper are as follows. 1) A short history of the Kyushu Private Railway. 2) A foreign railway engineer, Mr. Hellmann Rumschottel. 3) Two examples of imported German technology and industrial heritages. 4) Conclusion of this paper.
