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15. The total steam train mileage run amounted to 309,292 miles. This includes trains run over the Chinese Section to and from Canton. The Motor Coach mileage was 17,297 miles. 2,002,512 passengers were carried during the year.
16. The general Railway revenues showed a steady increase, and by the end of the year General Revenues had amounted to $1,095,098.77 against $973,128.63 for the previous year. General Revenue exceeded Operating Expenses by the very satisfactory sum of $150,094.76.
17. Additions to Capital were small. A new air compressor and motor was installed in the Workshops, and a short length of track laid in connection with the Sheung Shui Station Extensions.
18. There was a serious wash-out at mile 9 on 20th April causing the derailment of a local passenger train, when eleven passengers were killed and nine injured. The line was closed until 3rd May whilst repairs were effected.
19. There are 377 miles of roads in the Colony, 161 miles on the Island of Hong Kong and 216 miles in Kowloon and the New Territories. Of the total mileage 293 miles are constructed in water bound macadam dressed with asphalt, 12 miles in sheet asphalt on a cement concrete foundation, 13 miles of tar macadam, 17 miles of concrete, 3 miles of granite setts and wooden blocks on a cement concrete foundation and 39 miles of gravel.
20. The public travelling over the Colony's roads increases year by year with a corresponding growth in the number of motor buses, of which there are 56 operating on the island of Hong Kong, and 118 on the mainland. These are gradually replacing the rickshas, the number of which decreases year by year.
21. The Hong Kong Tramway Company has a fleet of nearly 90 double deck tram-cars running along the sea front of Victoria from Kennedy Town to Shaukiwan.
22. Communication between the island and the mainland is maintained by a number of ferry services; the most important of which are the Star Ferry between Kowloon Point and a pier near the General Post Office, and the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company between Yaumati and a pier also centrally situated on the sea front of the island. The number of passengers carried by these two ferry companies in 1931 is estimated at 37,691,700.