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9. Only urgent repairs to buildings were carried out. The verandah roof of Class A Quarters at Hung Hom was relaid and the block of watchmen's quarters renovated.
10. At Kowloon a new signal post was erected and two bridges of signals and two bracket signal posts retimbered with hardwood. The 40-ton weighbridge was overhauled and one of the beams repaired by electric welding.
11. Tracks at the coal loading stage at Hung Hom were relaid in a concrete bed. The 60-ft. turntable was overhauled.
12. The track in No. 1 Carriage Shed and half of that in No. 3, were relaid in concrete in place of timber longitudinals.
13. The engine ashpit at Lowu was reconstructed.
14. The gatemen's hut at Mile 19 which had subsided was rebuilt on a larger scale.
15. Four steel bridges were repainted and defective rivets in one were replaced and the decking tarred.
16. At all level crossings new Warning Signs were installed, the gates were painted and new lamps fitted.
17. The high-tension electric cable of the China Light & Power Company, as well as the Hong Kong Telephone Company's trunk telephone cable to Canton were laid through Beacon Hill Tunnel, the latter cable followed the Railway line at certain other points also.
18. Of 5,654 sleeper renewals, 5,201 were relaid with concrete sleepers, 253 with timber and 200 timbers used for point and crossing work.
19. In the late afternoon of April 20th, a cloud-burst occurred in the New Territories which caused considerable damage to the Railway, the most serious being at Bridge 22, Mile 93. Here the huge volume of water tearing down a precipitous mountain stream bed scoured away the approach bank to the bridge, in between the passage of two trains, the latter train being wrecked.
20. At Bridge 14A, Mile 6, the abnormal volume of water overflowing from a much larger stream carried away 65 yards of embankment.
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ENGINEERING.
9. Only urgent repairs to buildings were carried out. The verandah roof of Class A Quarters at Hung Hom was relaid and the block of watchmen's quarters renovated.
10. At Kowloon a new signal post was erected and two bridges of signals and two bracket signal posts retimbered with hardwood. The 40-ton weighbridge was overhauled and one of the beams repaired by electric welding.
11. Tracks at the coal loading stage at Hung Hom were relaid in a concrete bed. The 60-ft. turntable was overhauled.
12. The track in No. 1 Carriage Shed and half of that in No. 3, were relaid in concrete in place of timber longitudinals.
13. The engine ashpit at Lowu was reconstructed.
14. The gatemen's hut at Mile 19 which had subsided was rebuilt on a larger scale.
15. Four steel bridges were repainted and defective rivets in one were replaced and the decking tarred.
16. At all level crossings new Warning Signs were installed, the gates were painted and new lamps fitted.
17. The high-tension electric cable of the China Light & Power Company, as well as the Hong Kong Telephone Com- pany's trunk telephone cable to Canton were laid through Beacon Hill Tunnel, the later cable followed the Railway line at certain other points also.
18. Of 5,654 sleeper renewals, 5,201 were relaid with concrete sleepers, 253 with timber and 200 timbers used for point and crossing work.
19. In the late afternoon of April 20th, a cloud-burst occurred in the New Territories which caused considerable damage te the Railway, the most serious being at Bridge 22, Mile 93. Here the huge volume of water tearing down a precipitous mountain stream bed scoured away the approach bank to the bridge, in between the passage of two trains, the later train being wrecked.
20. At Bridge 14A, Mile 6, the abnormal volume of water overflowing from a much larger stream carried away 65 yards of embankment.
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