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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,

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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

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