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and Douglas DC-8, in various liveries, are all familiar sights on the terminal apron. During 1960, the number of charter operations to the Colony continued to increase, and there were 368 such flights.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
The British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway runs from the southern end of the Kowloon Peninsula to the Chinese frontier at Sham Chun where it joins the Chinese railway system. The northern bank of the Sham Chun river forms part of the inter- national boundary. Since 1949 passengers travelling to and fro have had to change trains at the border between the Colony and China, and to walk the 300 yards between the two termini. Mail and goods traffic in wagon loads however travel through without trans-shipment.
There are twelve daily passenger trains each way on the British section at present, and also an average of about one goods train. Passenger traffic is normally heavy at week-ends and on public holidays, especially in winter time. Special trains are often run between Kowloon terminus and Sha Tin Station-a picnic resort. The running time, including stops, between the terminal station in Kowloon at Tsim Sha Tsui and the border station at Lo Wu is about an hour.
The greatest number of passengers ever carried on a single day was 77,098, on 5th April this year (the Ching Ming Festival) when many passengers went to visit their ancestors' graves in Wo Hop Shek Cemetery at Fanling and Sandy Ridge at Lo Wu.
The fares are very reasonable. Third class from Kowloon to Sha Tin, a distance of 7.14 miles, is only fifty cents; children under 12 years of age pay half; the second class fare is 50% more than the third and the first class is double. Quarterly and monthly tickets at cheap rates are available at all stations. For a quarterly ticket, the fare is only the sum of 75 ordinary single fares and for a monthly ticket, 30 ordinary single fares. The holders may use their tickets on any train and as many times as they like on any day.
Passengers carried within the territory of Hong Kong were 5,891,040 or 86.1% of the total. Passengers to and from the frontier station of Lo Wu numbered 952,639, and the