However, with the financial drought, the government was not able to build and administer all the railways, and the government ended up being obliged to leave a part of building main railways to private railway companies.
しかしながら、政府財政の窮乏により鉄道をすべて官設官営で建設運営することはかなわず、やむなく民営鉄道に幹線鉄道建設の一部を委ねざるを得ないことになってしまった。