Appendix R.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
(British Section.)
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1910.
The following is a report on the work done on the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway during 1910.
Land.
No further land was acquired during the year. The site for the Workshops has been obtained by levelling ground at the back of Inland Lot 198, the spoil from which has gone to make up the Diversion of Gascoigne and Chatham Roads.
A plan is now being prepared to show the actual Crown Lands acquired for the Railway and to enable a surrender to be made of all land which is no longer required for Railway purposes.
Earthwork.
At the end of 1909 the following was the state of the works:
At Hung Hom about 5,000,000 cubic feet were required to complete the Reclamation, the majority of which was to come out of the large Cutting No. 1. The Gascoigne and Chatham Road Diversion was just being started, the earthwork for which was to be got by levelling a site for the Workshops. As far as Beacon Hill all the banks were finished with the exception of the heavy approaches to Bridge No. 4 and some earthwork round the abutments of Bridge No. 8. To the North of Beacon Hill a good deal of work remained to be done on Banks 19, 21, 27, 36, 42 and 45. The pitching to Banks between Mile 7 and 12 damaged by the typhoon of October, 1909, had to be repaired and the level thereof raised. The large slip in Cutting No. 29 had to be cleared away and the slope revetted. Cuttings Nos. 23, 27, 31 and 33 required sloping and bottoming up and a good deal of very wet excavation remained in the troublesome Cutting No. 47, as well as the excavation for the Station at Lowu, and the making up of the approaches of Bridge 49 over the Sam Chun River. During 1910 all this was finished. The big Cutting at Hung Hom was handed over by arrangement with the Contractors, at the beginning of September, and the rails laid through it. In this Cutting heavy retaining walls of cement concrete have been built on the Western side about 200 feet in length and on the Eastern 500 feet. The water from the Old Kowloon Water Works which was tapped at about 10 feet from the bottom gave considerable trouble in dealing with the last fifteen feet of the gullet of this Cutting until it...
Appendix R.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
(British Section.)
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1910.
The following is a report on the work done on the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway during 1910.
Land.
No further land was acquired during the year. The site for the Workshops has been obtained by levelling ground at the back of Inland Lot 198, the spoil from which has gone to make up the Diversion of Gascoigne and Chatham Roads.
A plan is now being prepared to show the actual Crown Lands acquired for the Railway and to enable a surrender to be madé of all land which is no longer required for Railway purposes.
Earthwork.
At the end of 1909 the following was the state of the works:
At Hung Hoin about 5,000,000 cubic feet were required to com- plete the Reclamation, the majority of which was to come out of the large Cutting No. 1. The Gascoigne and Chatham Road Diversion was just being started, the earthwork for which was to be got by levelling a site for the Workshops. As far as Beacon Hill all the banks were finished with the exception of the heavy approaches to Bridge No. 4 and some earthwork round the abutments of Bridge No. 8. To the North of Beacon Hill a good deal of work remained to be done on Banks 19, 21, 27, 36, 42 and 45. The pitching to Banks between Mile 7 and 12 damaged by the typhoon of October, 1909, had to be repaired and the level thereof raised. The large slip in Cutting No. 29 had to be cleared away and the slope revetted. Cuttings Nos. 23, 27, 31 and 33 required sloping and bottoming up and a good deal of very wet excavation remained in the troublesome Cut- ting No. 47, as well as the excavation for the Station at Lowu, and the making up of the approaches of Bridge 49 over the Sam Chun River. During 1910 all this was finished. The big Cutting at Hung Hom was handed over by arrangement with the Contractors, at the begin- ning of September, and the rails laid through it. In this Cutting heavy retaining walls of cement concrete have been built on the Western side about 200 feet in length and on the Eastern 500 feet. The water from the Old Kowloon Water Works which was tapped at about 10 feet from the bottom gave considerable trouble in deal- ing with the last fifteen feet of the gullet of this Cutting until it
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