33.
A total of 6,934 cold storage wagons conveying 136,188 tonnes of frozen goods were received from China, including :-
No. of wagons
Description of goods
1,882 172 1,015
Eggs
Fresh fruits
Meat, frozen
Tonnes
30,551
2,353
26,995
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Other cold or frozen goods included poultry, vegetables, fish, prawns, chestnuts, preserved meat, milk and ice cream.
The
35.
Mail and mail packets amounting to 3,778 tonnes, compared with 4,940 tonnes in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China. amount was distributed evenly over the whole period under review.
36.
Full details relating to goods imported from China by rail are shown in Appendix XI.
OPERATIONS
37.
New train time-tables were introduced from 18th April, 1977. As a result, four passenger trains and four additional paths for goods trains in both directions were added to provide a train service of 44 passenger trains and 20 goods trains per day. The new timetable also featured fixed times of arrival and departure for certain passenger trains at intervals of 30 minutes during the two peak hours both in the morning and the evening, i.e. between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
38.
Punctuality of passenger trains remained generally good as the following table shows :-
No. of scheduled
passenger trains
Percentage
Trains arriving within time of schedule Trains arriving more than 5 minutes late
13,584 2,140
86.39
13.61
Total No. of passenger trains run
15,724
100.00
39.
The number of freight trains was 2,256 from China and 2,184 to China. Freight trains to China were almost exclusively empty wagons.
40.
The numbers and types of special passenger trains run during the year were as follows :-
Up
Down
Total
Passenger Ballast
268
237
505
163
163
326
431
400
831
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