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accordamos with the Rules laid down in the Tariff and the
Agrescaent for provision of sidings.
It has been shown above that it would be anadvisable
for the British Section to claim Running Powers over the
Chinese, and « difficulty now arises in conjunction with the
Goods Traffic should the coal traffic or any other equally
bulky traffic originate on the British Section,
In cases
of interchanged traffic it is usual for the Railway which
originates the traffic to find the wagons therefore.
In
such a case it would be impracticable and uneconomical for
the British to do 80,
The only way to meet this is I
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think as follows+)
12. The two Traffic Managers of the two lines would have
to go into each question carefully and see whether in the
event of one Section wanting to send a low classificatio
traffic over the other, the wagons carrying it could be
returned to the same extant "back loaded".
If this con
be done and the Chinese did not wish to avail itself of
the Running Powers and carry the traffic from Hongkong up,
it would have to be agreed that for every wagon worked to
the junction by the British Section a back land would be
fortheming, and that in the event of traffio devel›ping
and being profitable the two Sections would provide wagons
for the combined