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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
On and siter AUGUST 25ra, 1930, until Further Notlos fall previous Time Tabloy danculled).
STATIONS No. No,
LE. LE
UP TRAINS
No.ID/Jo. A No.11 No.10 No.Na. 18 No.14 No.2 No.38 A.M. AM.
A.M. P.M.P.M.
P.M.Į F,M. P.M., T.ML, X,M.
Kowloon. Dap. 6.55; 8.00 8.31 0.05 10,00 11,01 1.19 0.84 3.00 4,80 5,40 7.45 Yanmati.Dep. 6.44-
Shatin...Dep. 6.56
Taipo. Dep 7,10
Taipo
Market.Dep. 216
Fanling..Dep. 7.35
Shoang-
shai...Dop. 7.30
Sundays & Holidays only
-
-
9.15 10.08 13.15 1,83
9.28 19.20 12.22 1,382
9.43 10,33 13,35 1.51
9.48 10.97 12,33 1,55: 10,00) 10,47, 3,49] 2,0 -
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www
9.01 10,05) 10.591 18.54] 2,10) 3.18 -
pong
4.88 5.48) 7.58 4.50 6.00 8.03 5.04 0.18 8.17
5.09 6.17 0.22 6.18 0.27 8.88
5.33 6.32 8,07
Shum...
ohun. Arr. 7.86 9.40 0.07 10.11 10.58 1,01 2,16 3.19 3.40 5.29 0,388,48
Canton...Arr. - 18.94
Canton ... Dep.
6.49)
DOWN TRAINS ·
-
7.34
STATIONS
BFG. I A.K.
No.
6.7 A.M. LX.
No.10 No. Na, 17 NG.IS || No.1, No. A.M.. A.M. P.M.P.M. P.M.
F.M.
No. 19 P.M.
8.25
8.26
7,25 8.10 10,47 11.88 7,89 8.21, 10,67 12,03
6,53 7.19 9.42 4.46 8.54 7,00 8.484.50 5.58
9.585.00 8,00
Dep. ...Dop.
7.40 8,28 11.01 12.08 7,538,30 11,14 12.99
8.03 5.04 0.13
Shamebun...Dop. Shoungebui Dep. Fanling TaipoMarket. Dep. Taipa
Bhatia
...Dop.
Yaumati Dop.
Kowloon Arr.
7.13 7,50 10.34 11,41 12.19 2.85 4,89 5.47 7.20 8,06 10.49 11.49
8.06 8,51 11.28 18.35
8.155.176.28
8.27 6.29 6.38
8.12 8.57 11.32 1941 12,59 3.33 5.85 6.44 7.36 -7.59
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HOW THE ZUIDER ZEE IS BEING
SHUT
IN
VAST DYKE BUILT ACROSS THE WAVES.
HOLLAND FINDS A NEW PROVINCE.
Holland expects to close her hands on the largest piece sho has ever taken out of the North Sen in the autumn of next year, which will connect Wieringan with Friesiand, and the Zuider Zee should be consequently enclosed..
I have just returned from two days spent on and about what wns ones the island of Wieringen, writes Mr. F. G. H. Salisbury in tho Daily Express; and I have had the most curiously thrilling ex-
rience of my life.
I say that because these unpar- alleled engineering works are to use the phrase of an old woman
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That const line is a dyke... Stand- cn it, facing Europe, and you will have the Zuider Zeg on your loft. Turo to your right and you will see the bottom of the Zuider Zee, now a part of the country, dry ox cept for a few patches, and stret ching for miles into the mint over North Holland.
It is twelve feet below the level of the water lapping at your left. Much remains to be done before the now land is ready for settling and cultivation. The salt must disappear from the soil. Houses, roads, and canals, both for navi
I used to know"against Provid-gation and drainage, must be built. ence," She would have held that, Incidentally, there will be 750 as the Zuider Zee was there, it miles of ditches. was meant to be there.
The Dutch, on the other hand, are rapidly putting the Zuider Zon in ite place, and will eventually increase the arable land of their
country by a tenth of its preant
LICO.
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550,000 Acres.
The lock at Den Oover has been built between the sluices and the land. It is forty-six feet wide and 465 feet long. I crossed it by a bridge which is to be replaced by swing bridges for the railway and road along the dyke, and slither ed down into the "excavation," whose surrounding wall will, in When I the end, be removed. climbed out on the further side the dyke was before me.
The
It is a marvellous view. dyke lungod straight on as far as I could see towards Friesland. Out of the corner of my eye I glimps ed a blue ribbon on the water, which was the polder dyka connect- ing Wieringen. with Medemblik. I bogan to walk ahead..
The dyke in wide enough for s double rai.way, a rond, and a cycl- ing path every other person in folland rides a hieycle,
Compensated Fishermen.
I ban best describe the sites of the three future polders by saying cast, will fill the gulf at the head that two, the south-west and south of which is Amsterdam, and that
I came to a collection of work- the third will bulge from the op posite const behind a dyke cury-men's huts, haunted by dogs and Iting from the neighbourhood of red checked children clumping about in wooden shoes. Wieringen Mirns to Vollenhoven,
and the other end of the dyke were lost in mist...
The are accustomed to putting, and keeping, the sea in its place, for the greater part of Holland is actually below Rea-level. one natural protection, is the line. of dunes which runs along the west coast of North Holland,
Joined to Mainland.
For the rest, man has raised his own walls against the sea, and, by enclosing and pumping out successive areas, has added to bie Possessions. Such areas are called polders; and the Zuider Zee scheme provides for four mighty polders, of which one-the north-west-is finished.
If you look at a map of Holland you will soo the Zuider Zee shaped rather like a cottage loaf, and with Wieringen at the top-left.
The four polders will have A The total area of 350,000 acres. north-west one is the smallest with 50,000 acres, and the south-east one, to adjoin the province of Gelder land, will be the largest with 230,000 acres
You approach Wieringen by the first dyke, which was made as part of the scheme. It carries a rail way and a rod. The erstwhile island is itself the barrier for the next section, and when you have traversed its length you arrive at Den Oever.
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Hore starts in earnest the dkye which will span the Zuiderzee entrance for eighteen and a half miles to Friesland.
There was simply this strip→→ this rib-of earth floating on the
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Taken of TOURISTS. Four miles out I came to the Orbis Address: "VICTORIA." end of it, and thenes I could soc faintly the central section, beyond which is another gap, and beyond that the Friesland sootion,
As I walked back across the sea to Den Oovor I thought of the time when the dyke will be humming with motor-care and, of course, millions of bicycles all enjoying & perfectly straight run of eighteen and a half miles on a brick-surfac
road.
I thought of the Zuider Zoe fishermen who will be compensated for the substitution of land for
at their front doors. water
The top-left portion of that loaf has already gone Wieringen bas already gone: Wieringen has been When that is done work will be joined to the mainland, and the glo on the three other polders, and coast line-advanced into the Zuid- the Zuidar Zee will cease to be er Zec, by an averago of eight the Zuider Zoe. It will degenerato miles-runs no from the north- into a wedgeshaped lake, to be call-thought of the year 1950, when the OBEL tip of Wieringen to the towned the Ysselmeer, and its water whole scheme may be completed.
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