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Taiwan Railway Company vs Wattis Brothers

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Wattis Brothers is the older of the two, founded in 1880 — 16 years before Taiwan Railway Company.

Taiwan Railway Company
Wattis Brothers
Founded
1896
1880
Status
Closed 1899
Active
Headquarters
Yūrakuchō
United States
Industry
railway company
railway company
Founders
Okabe Nagamoto, Yasukazu Yasuba
Edmund Orson Wattis, Jr, William Henry Wattis

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Taiwan Railway Company and Wattis Brothers.