No. of wagons
Description of goods
9
Bamboo root shoots
71
Chestnuts
960
Eggs
121
Fish
932
Fresh fruits
4
Lotus roots
***
596
Meat
44
1
Onions
36
Potatoes
414
86
Poultry
20
Prawns
20
Sundries
***
***
20
Turnips
张智
***
285
Vegetables...
3,161
Weight in metric tons
126
1,411
15,659
2,614
17,694
77
部
13,625
18
890
1,781
428
452
408
舞
***
3,635
58,818
19. During the year under review, among the goods transported to China by rail were 696 metric tons of personal effects, 72 metric tons of sewing machines, 29 metric tons of diplomatic belongings and 29 metric tons of newspapers.
20. 3,975 metric tons of mail and mail packets, compared with 3,856 metric tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. This amount was distributed fairly evenly over the whole
year.
21. Details relating to goods traffic appear in Appendix V.
22. Operation. Train punctuality was satisfactory and there was a marked improvement over the preceding year. Had it not been for the bomb incidents along the line during the period of unrest, the results would have been much better.
No. of scheduled passenger trains
Trains on time
***
***
Trains delayed for less than 5 minutes Trains delayed for 5 minutes and over
Total No. of passenger trains run...
Percentage
10,376
83.50
1,172
9.43
879
7.07
12,427
100.00
23. A total of 3,766 special trains was run during the year as against 4,606 in the previous year, a decrease of 840 or 18.24%. Details are as
follows:
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