10. At Fanling Station the road approach to the goods yard was completed,
11. Since the train service has necessitated a train being stabled each night at Lowu to form the first inward train in the morning, it has become necessary to provide siding and stabling accommodation at this point. During the year spoil was tipped to form an area for yard and sidings, and work was commenced on a single line running shed 150 feet long of brickwork and with a tiled roof. The work, however, was not completed at the end of the year.
12. The 8-foot span bridge at Mile 16, referred to report, was doubled as proposed, and no fear of further flooding at this point need be anticipated.
13. The road bed at Mile 16 where passing over a band of clay was taken up, drained and reballasted by night work. This place has given much trouble in the past, owing to the sloppy nature of the subsoil during the rainy season.
14. Many of the steel bridges were given their periodical coats of paint; the steelwork of the Workshop buildings was also gone over, repaired where necessary and painted.
15. The European Quarters at Hunghom were renovated during the year.
16. Experiments were made with tar and asphalt surfacing on portions of the Kowloon Platforms, and as these have proved successful so far, it is intended to asphalt the whole of the platforms and concourse area. It is high time this was done.
17. The rainfall for the year was above the average, a very large proportion occurring in the months of May and June; in fact 43 inches out of a total for the year of 974 inches, fell in May; the heaviest fall per hour recorded being 3.25 inches. The railway however suffered very little damage, which is no small reward for previous expenditure in combating and repairing the rainstorm damage frequently experienced in this country.
There were two or three occasions on which typhoon blows occurred but fortunately none were serious.
18. The remaining portion of the old original training wall at mile 141, referred to in my last report, gave way, and the gap was built up to the same section as the additional lengths carried out in recent years, which has proved sufficiently strong to withstand flood damage.
19. A Halt Station was opened at Ho Mun Tin, mile 24, where the local morning and evening trains call for the convenience of a new community which has lately settled at this point, and a temporary platform built of old sleepers was provided. This is not an ideal site for a station and will probably not be required when the road trains serve the neighbourhood, as is anticipated will be the case in the near future.
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10. At Fanling Station the road approach to the goods yard was completed,
11. Since the train service has necessitated a train being stabled each night at Lowu to form the first inward train in the morning, it has become necessary to provide siding and stabling accommodation at this point. During the year spoil was tipped to form an area for yard and sidings, and work was commenced on a single line running shed 150 feet long of brickwork and with a tiled roof. The work, however, was not completed at the end of the year.
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12. The 8-foot span bridge at Mile 16, referred to report, was doubled as proposed, and no fear of further flooding at this point need be anticipated.
13. The road bed at Mile 16 where passing over a band of clay was taken up, drained and reballasted by night work. This place has given much trouble in the past, owing to the sloppy nature of the subsoil during the rainy season.
14. Many of the steel bridges were given their periodical coats of paint; the steelwork of the Workshop buildings was also gone over, repaired where necessary and painted.
15. The European Quarters at Hunghon were renovated during the year.
16. Experiments were made with tar and asphalt surfacing on portions of the Kowloon Platforms, and as these have proved successful so far, it is intended to asphalt the whole of the platforms and concourse area. It is high time this was done.
17. The rainfall for the year was above the average, a very large proportion occurring in the months of May and June; in fact 43 inches out of a total for the year of 974 inches, fell in May; the heaviest fall per hour recorded being 3.25 inches. The railway however suffered very little damage, which is no small reward for previous expenditure in combating and repairing the rainstorm damage frequently experienced in this country.
There were two or three occasions on which typhoon blows occurred but fortunately none were sericus.
18. The remaining portion of the old original training wall at mile 141, referred to in my last report, gave way, and the gap was built up to the same section as the additional lengths carried out in recent years, which has proved sufficiently strong to withstand flood damage.
19. A Halt Station was opened at Ho Mun Tin, mile 24, where the local morning and evening trains call for the convenience of a new community which has lately settled at this point, and a tem- porary platform built of old sleepers was provided. This is not an ideal site for a station and will probably not be required when the road trains serve the neighbourhood, as is anticipated will be the case in the near future.
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