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Projected Railways
1. Kirin to Hunchun, 240 miles.
2. Chinchowfu to Aigun, 750 miles. Preliminary agreement signed in January,. 1910, for American loan and British construction.
3. Chengtingfu to Yehchow, 110 miles. To connect the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Railways. Concession granted to Germans.
4. Chefoo to Weihsien, 170 miles. To connect Chefoo with the Shantung Railway. Delayed for some years. Funds raised in 1915; Government contributing half.
5. Tungkwan to Honanfu (Hsi-T'ung), 730 miles. Surveyed in 1909. engineer engaged.
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6. 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.
7. Lanchowfu to Ilifu, over 1,250 miles. A still more indefinite item of the
programme.
8. 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. Surveys completed in 1914, but construction delayed owing to war.
9. Chaochowfu or Swatow via Waichow to Sheklung or Shunchün, 200 miles. Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton- Kowloon Railway.
10. Macao to Fatshan (on the Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.
1. Kweilin to Chuanchow (Kwangsi), 80 miles. Preliminary survey made in 1909; no funds for construction.
12. Langson to Lungchow, 46 miles. A proposed French extension, metre gauge, of the Hanoi Langson line. It is proposed to continue this line to Nanning (150 miles). 13. Yunnanfu to Szechuan, 450 miles. To Suifu or to Luchow. Two American engineers were engaged by the Viceroy of Yunnan to survey in 1909. Probably metre gauge.
14. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed ; 2 feet 6 inches or metre gauge.
15. Shasi to Singyifu (Kweichow) via Chengteh and Kueiyang with branch from Chengteh to Changsha, the whole aggregating 800 miles. Final agreement signed. between the Chinese Government and Messrs. Paulings (British) on July 25th, 1914. Surveys completed.
16. Kiaochow (Kaomi) Yichow-fu railway (Shantung), to join the Tientsin-Nanking railway on the Kiangsu border; also a line from Tsinanfu (Shantung) to Shuntchfu (Chilli) joining the Tientsin-Pukow and the Peking-Hankow lines. Chinese State- railway to be constructed with German capital.
17. Lung-Ts'in to Yü-Hai. Contract made in 1912, between the Chinese Government and the Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels, for the construction and equipment of the Railway, thereby authorising the company to issue a 5 per cent. gold loan of £10,000,000 for that purpose.
This line will run,
generally, in an east and west direction, through the Provinces of Kansu, Shansi,. Honan, and Kiangsu. Its course is laid from Lauchowfu, to pass through the important cities of Sianfu and Tungkwan, to absorb the existing line between Honanfu, Chengchow (where it crosses the Peking-Hankow line), and Kaifengfu, then to bend slightly southwards to Süchowfu (where it crosses the Tientsin-Pukow line), and thence to a port yet to be determined. Haichow, on the north coast of Kiangsu, Tungchow (distant about 76 miles from Shanghai) and Haimen (about 20 miles farther east), on the northern shore of the Yangtsze estuary, are all spoken of as the probable terminus of this most important undertaking. The section from Hsuchowfu to Sianfu has been opened. Construction has been delayed owing to the war.
18. Tatungfu to Tungkwan. The Chinese Government in 1913 signed an agreement with the Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels, for a loan of £10,000,000, to build a railway from Tatungfu, southwards through the centre of Shansi, to Tungkwan, where it will meet the Lung-Ts'in-Yu-Hai line, the company having the option to extend south-westwards to Chengtu, the total length being about 960 miles. Proposals were also in the air for further extensions south-east to Chungking, and then south-west to join the Yunnan Railway at Yünnanfu.
19. Chingchow to Nanning.-By an agreement, dated February, 1914, with the Banque Industrielle de Chine, a line will be built from Chinchow (Yamchow), on the
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