23. The steel sided goods wagons now require considerable repairs and 30 were given a general overhaul and repainted. The wooden sided wagons built in 1920 are proving themselves very durable; beyond painting, nothing had to be done to these.
24. A considerable amount of work was undertaken for the other Departments of the Railway, and repairs to Government owned Motor Cars as well as the Police and Fire Brigade Motor Vehicles were carried out in the Workshops. At the beginning of the year three new Motor Cars were purchased by the Government for the use of various Government Departments, they were stabled in the buildings recently taken over from the China Light & Power Co. The mileage run by these cars was about 30,000.
25. From the 13th January to the 8th March there was a strike of seamen which, as it developed, involved the majority of trades and seriously affected the business of the Colony. All strikers left the Colony for Canton and this coupled with the fact that river steamboat traffic entirely ceased, caused record Passenger and Goods traffic by rail. Except that the drivers and firemen were persuaded to join the strikers a day before the settlement, the Railway staff remained loyal and handled unprecedented traffic in a commendable manner. The express trains had to be run in duplicate or were double-banked. In the latter case they consisted of as many as 23 coaches. It was found generally preferable to run in duplicate, each portion consisting of from 10 to 12 coaches. As many as 2,000 passengers were carried on one portion, and over 8,000 in a day.
26. The increased earnings of this period were somewhat reduced by a period of partial stagnation after the strike, by the launchmen's strike in May, and by the frequent train suspensions owing to political unrest in Canton and neighbourhood. Much inconvenience and loss was caused by resultant military operations between Sun Yat-sen and Chan Kwing-ming. On five occasions bridges on the Chinese Section of the line were damaged by explosives in attempts to prevent movements of troops. During this political unrest robber bands were as usual active along the part of the line in the Chinese Territory.
27. On two occasions the launch which plies between Taipo in British Territory and Sha U Chung in Chinese Territory was pirated.
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28. In commemoration of the fourth anniversary of "Armistice Day" at 11 a.m. on November the 11th, all traffic on the line stopped, and in the Workshops and elsewhere all motion was suspended for 2 minutes.
29. During the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in April, the Kowloon Railway Station was dressed with flags and bunting, and the building and clock tower facing the harbour fronts, including the goodshed, was picked out in red electric lights on the night of the 6th and 7th.
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also received heavy repairs and two new steel goods wagons have been built to replace two that were beyond repair.
23. The steel sided goods wagons now require considerable repairs and 30 were given a general overhaul and repainted. The wooden sided wagons built in 1920 are proving themselves very durable; beyond painting, nothing had to be done to these.
24. A considerable amount of work was undertaken for the other Departments of the Railway, and repairs to Government owned Motor Cars as well as the Police and Fire Brigade Motor Vehicles were carried out in the Workshops. At the beginning of the year three new Motor Cars were purchased by the Government for the use of various Government Departments, they were stabled in the buildings recently taken over from the China Light & Power Co. The mileage run by these cars was about 30,000.
25. From the 13th January to the 8th March there was a strike of seamen which, as it developed, involved the majority of trades and seriously affected the business of the Colony. All strikers left the Colony for Canton and this coupled with the fact that river steamboat traffic entirely ceased, caused record Passenger and Goods traffic by rail. Except that the drivers and firemen were persuaded to join the strikers a day before the settlement, the Railway staff remained loyal and handled unprecedented traffic in a commendable manner. The express trains had to be run in duplicate or were double-banked. In the latter case they consisted of as many as 23 coaches. It was found generally preferable to run in duplicate, each portion consisting of from 10 to 12 coaches. As many as 2,000 passengers were carried on one portion, and over 8,000 in a day.
26. The increased earnings of this period were somewhat reduced by a period of partial stagnation after the strike, by the launchmen's strike in May, and by the frequent train suspensions owing to political unrest in Canton and neighbourhood. Much inconvenience and loss was caused by resultant military operations between Sun Yat-sen and Chan Kwing-ming. On five occasions bridges on the Chinese Section of the line wore damaged by explosives in attempts to prevent movements of troops. During this political unrest robber bands were as usual active along the part of the line in the Chinese Territory.
27. On two occasions the launch which plies between Taipo in British Territory and Sha U Chung in Chinese Territory was pirated.
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28. In commemoration of the fourth anniversary of "Armistice Day
at 11 a.m. on November the 11th. all traffic on the line stopped, and in the Workshops and elsewhere all motion was suspended for 2 minutes.
29. During the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in April, the Kowloon Railway Station was dressed with flags and bunting, and the building and clock tower facing the harbour fronts, including the goodshed. was picked out in red electric lights on the night of the 6th and 7th.
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