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electronics. The Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited provides maintenance, overhaul and repair facilities at the airport for a wide range of aircraft, including the latest jet airliners.
The Colony's own airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, offers services to India, Japan, Malaysia, Sabah, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Korea, using Convair 880 and Lockheed Electra aircraft. Some 180 scheduled services arrive each week at Hong Kong Airport, operated by 20 international airlines, in addition to numerous charter and non- scheduled flights. On average some 2,600 passengers pass through the airport every day.
The volume of air traffic continued to increase during the year and passenger, freight and mail figures showed increases of 24.2 per cent, 52.3 per cent and 11.4 per cent respectively over the preceding year.
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 Lo Wu, where it joins the Chinese railway system. Since 1949 passengers have had to change trains at the border between the Colony and China and walk the 300 yards separating the two termini. Mail and goods traffic in wagon loads, however, travel through without transhipment.}{ }
There are 17 daily passenger trains each way operating on the British Section and an average of five goods trains per day. Passenger traffic is normally heavy at weekends and public holidays, especially in winter. Special trains are often run between the Kowloon ter- minus and Sha Tin, which is a popular picnic resort. The running time, including stops, between the terminal station in Kowloon and the border station at Lo Wu is about one hour. The greatest number of passengers carried in a single day during the year was 89,958 on Sunday, 23rd January, which fell during the Chinese New Year period, when many passengers spent their holiday in the New Territories.
Fares for third class travel are slightly higher than bus fares except between Kowloon and Sha Tin. Third class from Kowloon
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