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CHINA
Branches: (1) Shanghai to Woosung (Sung-Hu), 10 miles; opened in 1898; taken over by the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Administration in 1905. (2) Nanking City Railway,. 7 miles, built from Government provincial funds by a British engineer; opened August, 1908. A branch of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway is to be built from Wusih to Kiangyin, 25 miles.
18. Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway (Hu-Hang-Yung); 218 miles. Under construction by two companies with Chinese capital, the Kiangsu and Chekiang Railway Companies, respectively. Opened from Shanghai to Hangchow (118 miles) in August, 1908.
19. Fukien Railway (Chang-Hsia), Changchowfu to Amoy, 33 miles. Construction progressing slowly.
20. Swatow-Chaochowfu Railway (Chao-Shan); 24 miles completed November, 1909. Chinese capital. Japanese engineers. Eventual connection with Amoy is proposed.
21. Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chiu-Kuang), 112 miles. Constructed with British capital and British engineers. The section in British territory, from Kowloon to Shumchün, 22 miles, was opened in October, 1910. The Chinese section, Canton to Shumchün, 89 miles, was opened on October 3rd. A connection with the Canton- Hankow Railway is to be made by a loop round the north of Canton city.
22. Sunning Railway (Hsin-Ning), Kongyik to Samkaphoi vià Sunning, 55 miles. Chinese capital and Chinese engineers. Opened in 1909-10.
23. Yunnan Railway (Tien-Yueh), Laokaj to Yunnanfu, 291 miles. An extension of the line from Hanoi. Metre gauge. Built and controlled by French. Completed January, 1910.
Projected Railways
1. Kirin to Changchun (Kuanchengtzu) (Chi Chang), 80 miles. Surveys completed. Japanese loan completed in November, 1909. Engineer-in-chief, Japanese.
2. Kirin to Hunchun, 240 miles. To be undertaken on completion of the Kirin- Changchun line.
3. Chinchowfu to Aigun, 750 miles. Preliminary agreement signed in January, 1910, for American loan and British construction.
4. Kalgan to Suiyuan (Chang-Sui), 180 miles, through Kweihwating to Hokow on the Yellow River, where it flows through inner Mongolia. Work advanced as far as · Tatungfu by the end of 1913.
5. Chengtingfu to Tehchow, 110 miles. To connect the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Railways.
6. Chefoo to Weihsien, 170 miles. To connect Chefoo with the Shantung Railway. Delayed for want of funds.
7. Tatungfu to Puchowfu (T'ung-P'u), 450 miles. To connect the north and centre of Shansi province with the Shensi Railway at Tungkwan, south of Puchowiu. Only the section from Taiyuan to Pingyaohsien (60 miles) appears to be in immediate contemplation.
8. Tungkwan to Honanfu (Hsi-T'ung), 730 miles. Surveyed in 1909. Chinese engineer engaged.
9. Sianfu to Tungkwan (Lo-Tung), 85 miles. Surveyed in 1909.
10. Sianfu to Lanchowfu, 80 miles. Noted in the programme of the Board of Communications as to be surveyed in 1911, but the project is still somewhat indefinite.
11. Lanchowfu to Ilifu, over 1,250 miles. A still more indefinite item of the programnie. 12. Kaifeng to Süchowfu, 175 miles. Also surveyed in 1909.
13. Süchowfu to Tsingkiangpu (Ching-Hsü), 120 miles.
14. Tsingkiangpu to Haichow (Ching-Hai), 70 miles. This last section is intended to provide an outlet on the sea for the great trunk line from west to east, which will be formed by the execution of projects Nos. 8, 9, 12 and 13 in addition to the existing line from Honanfu to Kaifeng.
15. From Tsingkiangpu along the Grand Canal to Kwachow (on the Yangtse opposite Chinkiang), over 100 miles.
16. Sinyangchow to Fengyang or Pukow, 270 miles. Chinese Central Railways Co. authorised to raise a loan of £3,000,000 for the construction of this line, which will pass through Luchowfu, Linanchao and Chengyang Kwan.
17. Chaochowfu or Swatow via Waichow to Sheklung or Shunchun, 200 miles. Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton- Kowloon Railway.
18 Macao to Fatshan (on the Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted
to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.