Appendix S.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
(British Section.)
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1921.
1. The installation of the electric turret clock and 1-ton hour bell was completed in March and the clock started on the 22nd, since when perfect time has been kept.
2. Three more sidings were laid at Kowloon Station as laybys, but these have not yet been connected to the signal cabin.
3. The old temporary station building at Hunghom was condemned, and an operating cabin of brickwork substituted, which provides only accommodation for the point levers for the sidings, and living rooms for the staff. This station is closed as a passenger station now but the marshalling sidings remain.
4. A brick building was erected at the Workshops for the installation of three rotary convertors and the necessary switchboards, for converting high tension alternating current from the China Light & Power Co.'s supply, to direct current for the workshop motors, etc. The machinery for this purpose was taken over from the Company on its vacating its premises adjacent to the Locomotive Yard and removing to a new site about a mile away. The rotary convertors are not, however, of the most economical type and may have to be replaced.
5. In preparation for the building of the new overbridge to the north of Yaumati Station, the embankment was widened and ballast laid later for carrying the necessary railway deviation round the site of the new bridge during construction.
6. A new brickwork latrine was built at Yaumati Station to replace the old iron one.
7. Early in the year new rails were laid through Beacon Hill Tunnel (2,403 yards). The time occupied by this work was 30 nights, 7 lengths of 36 feet each being renewed each night.
8. The siding at Shatin Station was connected to the loop line at the far end and now forms a second loop which has proved very useful. A low temporary wooden platform of old sleepers was erected between the main line and No. 1 loop.
9. At Taipo Market Station a small open shelter consisting of a tiled roof on reinforced concrete columns has been provided for the convenience of consignors of live pigs and fresh fish, while waiting for trains.
Appendix S.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
(British Section.)
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1921.
1. The installation of the electric turret clock and 1-ton hour bell was completed in March and the clock started on the 22nd, since when perfect time has been kept.
2. Three more sidings were laid at Kowloon Station as laybys, but these have not yet been connected to the signal cabin,
3. The old temporary station building at Hunghom was con- demned, and an operating cabin of brickwork substituted, which provides only accommodation for the point levers for the sidings, and living rooms for the staff. This station is closed as a passenger station now but the marshalling sidings remain.
4. A brick building was erected at the Workshops for the installation of three rotary convertors and the necessary switch- boards, for converting high tension alternating current from the China Light & Power Co's supply, to direct current for the work- shop motors, etc. The machinery for this purpose was taken over from the Company on its vacating its premises adjacent to the Locomotive Yard and removing to a new site about a mile away. The rotary convertors are not, however, of the most economical type and may have to be replaced.
5. In preparation for the building of the new over bridge to the north of Yaumati Station, the embankment was widened and ballast laid later for carrying the necessary railway deviation round the site of the new bridge during construction.
6. A new brickwork latrine was built at Yaumati Station to replace the old iron one.
7. Early in the year new rails were laid through Beacon Hill Tunnel (2,403 yards). The time occupied by this work was 30 nights, 7 lengths of 36 feet each being renewed each night.
8. The siding at Shatin Station was connected to the loop line at the far end and now forms a second loop which has proved very useful. A low temporary wooden platform of old sleepers was erected between the main line and No. 1 loop.
9. At Taipo Market Station a small open shelter consisting of a tiled roof on reinforced concrete columns has been provided for the convenience of consignors of live pigs and fresh fish, while waiting for trains.
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