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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
On and attor AUGUST 23ru, 1930, until Further Natico (all previous
Time Tables cancelled),
UP TRAINS
STATIONS at No. No.10 No.4 No, 13 ]Na, 15:
....
Kowloon. Dep.) 6.31; 8.00*8,24] 0,05) 10,00) 13,01 1.18 2,84 Yaamati.Dep. 6.44
Shatin,..Dep.) 6.58)
Taipo... Dep 7.10
·Tairo
Bundays & Holidays oily
F,M. 7,5, P,M. TM, F.Me
3.00) 4,30-6,40 7.43
4,88 6,48 7.38 4.50 6.00 8.03 5.04 0.13 8.17 5,086.17 8.82 6.186.37 0.63
9.15 10.08 12.101,935 - 9.28 10,2012,23; 1,38|| 9.43 10.83; 13,55 1,31||
10.43 10.87 12.891,55 10.00 10.47 18.49 2,034 9.01 10,03 10.52 19.5 2.10 chun...Arr. 7,35) 5.40 | 9.0710,11 10.19 '1,90] 2.16
Market, Dep. 2,18-- Faaling. Dop. 7.25 Ahoung..
Fant
Dep, 7.30
Canton......,Air." —– 12,34)
$.48
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
..
No. 9 Q. 1
23.7 L.M. A.X.
Canton Dep.
Shoangibal Da
8.18528 8,32697 8.1 3.40 5.29 6,588.49
7.94--
No.15 No. No. 170,10 No.11 No.23 | No, 18 4.16. A.M. | P.M. | F‚M. | P,M. F.M. | P.M.
8,26
8,95
2,4
2,42 1,465.54.
4.50 5.58
6.57 7.19 7,00
Shunchan Dep.7.13 750 ans, 28. 12.19 2.85 489 47
7.30 9.08 10.41 11.25 -2.42 Fanling Dep, 7.25 9.10 10,47 11.29 TaipoMarket.Dep. 7,833.21 10.57 11.49 ...Dop. 7.40 8.20. 11.01 11,5
Taipo
Shatin
Dep.
7.53 9.39 11.14 11.59 8.06 9.51 11.26 12.12
Tanmati Dep. Kowlady
2.56 5.00 6.08
8,025.04 8.13 -8,136,178.20
9.15.29 6.88
WHY DID THEY LET HER GO?”
THE R.101 DISASTER.
BEDFORD NEWSPAPER'S REMARKABLE INDICTMENT.
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE MAN IN CONTROL WHEN THE CRASH CAME.
An amazing alligation that R101 was dipping at the nose when she Legan her ill-fated voyaga
wns made in a leading article in the Bedford Record on October 6, The
article says:-
Fears Confirmed.
her sister ship, or herself in her. original position, and the eight was of the murkiest,
"That Spelt, Danger,!! "She few low over the treetops, (and the insufficiency of her alt
ade appeared to have been a noti crible feature as she passed over
London.
"A perusal of the first accounts of the disaster that overwhelmed our
"Why did they let her go! They grent airship-Bedford's and Car- dington's before anybody else's-knew she was dipping, at the n089. corms, in crust fashion, thend they know, as the man in the worst forebodings of many
who street did not know, that that watched with anxious interest the spelt danger. They karw that she all too rapid execution of her at had not been tested properly. terations and the preparations afterwards for her fight.
"Let there be no mistake about
when R101 returned from hor. one
"Bedford's indictment in a word is this--and harsh it may stem and unsympathetic, and even hasty, but it cannot made, too soon or too emphatically that the disaster. that filled the countryside with grief and horror need not happened and ought not to have Lappened?"
hava
Mr. H. J. Leech; foreman engi teet, Royal Airship Works, who acted as arcond pilot, was at his post in the control cabin when the disaster happened to R101.
inadeguato test was the dip at the nothing was to be left to chance. whirled round the cabin and made
He was taken by surprise bỷ a "Up to a few days before, it sudden dip of the airship and the hardly seems longer than that, the explosion which followed its col
ision with the hillside. We Goast had been that the construc-reproduce his account of what hap tion of R101 should not be hurri pcned in his own words:- this. The one point that struckd: she was an experimental ship; ...Arc. 8.128.57 11.32 1218 12:50 333 5.38 8.44 7.86-7.59
Just before we reached Beau- the casual and ignorant observertime was of no consequence, and vais," he said, "we ran into a tre mendous storm, Wind and rain Step by step the groundwork was the entire structure-quiver. Conti to be tested and consolidated. The dent in the solidity of the R101, 1 "Next as to Saturday night. The policy of both construction and de-continued to keep the ship towards
Paris. one thing then that struck the man sign was safety Arst. Yet with all in the street again was that she their care, with all their prepara-front end drop-a danger signal.
"Just over Beauvais I felt the
stemed slow in the uptake. Theretions, with all their foresight-was "We went on slowly, feeling our was none of the apparent lightness it that something failed them at way as it wors, but-steadily. and freedom that had characterised the critical moment
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Star Theatre: "Madonna of Arenne A."
Central Theatre: "Redskin." Majestic Theatre: The Sopho inore,"
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