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Additional Customs facilities were provided in the Godown and all seven sections were made available for the examination and storage of goods. The Permanent Way Store which had occupied the two end sections was moved to the shed at Blackhead's Point which had previously been used for the manufacture of concrete sleepers.
(g) The Goods Yard was surfaced with tar-macadam in November.
104. All the buffer stops at Kowloon Station were renewed.
105. 1,736 linear feet of track was removed from redundant crossovers and sidings at Kowloon and Yaumati.
106. The approach roads to Taipo and Fanling Stations were repaired. The Public Works Department remetalled the approach road to Yaumati Station and installed electric lights on it.
107. A motor car shelter was erected on the North side of Kowloon Station Building. Old materials were utilised for this work.
108. A minor slip which disclosed badly fissured rock occurred in No. 1 Cutting after heavy rain in August. Traffic was not interrupted, and the dangerous rock was underpinned by means of a concrete strut.
109. The China Light and Power Company laid a second high-tension electric cable through Beacon Hill Tunnel.
110. The manufacture of reinforced concrete sleepers ceased on the 1st August, experience having demonstrated the unsuitability of sleepers of this type.
At the end of the year, 69.6% of the sleepers in the main line were concrete.
111. 4,129 new timber sleepers arrived in October from New South Wales. They consisted of miscellaneous hardwoods and were all Eucalypts with the exception of a few Turpentines. The cost per piece was 5s. 10d. c.i.f. Hong Kong and they were stacked in Kowloon Station Yard. The standard size was reduced from 9′ 0″ x 10″ x 5″ to 8' 6" x 9" x 5″.
112. Permanent Way renewals were as follows:-
5,000 "Timeproof" concrete sleepers.
702 Wooden sleepers.
482 Bridge and Crossing timbers.
11 sets of crossings.
1 set of switches. 29 rails.
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Additional Customs facilities were provided in the Godown and all seven sections were made available for the examination and storage of goods. The Permanent Way Store which had occupied the two end sections was moved to the shed at Blackhead's Point which had previously been used for the manu- facture of concrete sleepers.
(g) The Goods Yard was surfaced with tar-macadam in
November.
104. All the buffer stops at Kowloon Station were renewed.
105. 1,736 linear feet of track was removed from redundant crossovers and sidings at Kowloon and Yaumati.
106. The approach roads to Taipo and Fanling Stations were repaired. The Public Works Department remetalled the approach road to Yaumati Station and installed electric lights on it.
107. A motor car shelter was erected on the North side of Kowloon Station Building. Old materials were utilised for this work.
108. A minor slip which disclosed badly fissured rock oc- curred in No. 1 Cutting after heavy rain in August. Traffic was not interrupted, and the dangerous rock was underpinned by means of a concrete strut.
109. The China Light and Power Company laid a second high-tension electric cable through Beacon Hill Tunnel.
110. The manufacture of reinforced concrete sleepers ceased on the 1st August, experience having demonstrated the unsuit- ability of sleepers of this type.
At the end of the year, 69.6% of the sleepers in the main line were concrete.
111. 4,129 new timber sleepers arrived in October from New South Wales. They consisted of miscellaneous hardwoods and were all Eucalypts with the exception of a few Turpentines. The cost per piece was 5s. 10d. c.i.f. Hong Kong and they were stacked in Kowloon Station Yard. The standard size was reduced from 9′ 0′′ x 10′′ x 5′′ to 8' 6" x 9" x 5′′.
112. Permanent Way renewals were as follows:-
5,000 "Timeproof" concrete sleepers.
702 Wooden sleepers.
482 Bridge and Crossing timbers.
11 sets of crossings.
1 set of switches. 29 rails.
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