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sclosure A

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IV.

TIME REQUIRED FOR RUNNING.

The time taken in running between Kowloon and

Canton would, at a speed of 25 miles an hour, be about 1/2 an hour

less by the East than by the West route assuming always that the

adoption of the low-level tunnel would obviate the necessity for

heavy gradients on the former. This saving of time is obviously an

important matter on a small section of what it is hoped will be

part of a trunk line to Han Kow and possibly to Chin Kiang.

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V. ANTICIPATED TRAFFIC AND DEVELOPMENT.

The local traffic from the district South of the

hills known as New Kowloon is scarcely worth considering but a

station at the South end of the tunnel proposed for the East route

would be a suitable terminus for a mountain railway giving access

ito residences on the hills. Beyond them the East route gives direct

access to the small cultivated area at the head of Tide Cove, to

the two small valleys which unite in that of the stream running 'in-

to the Western end of Tolo Harbour at Tai Po and to the valley

which runs East-North-East from Shek U Hue to the head of Starling

Inlet near Sha Tau Kok. The West route gives access to small cul- tivated areas at Tsun Man and Tai Lam Cheung and to the three con- siderable valleys which run from the South-West (Castle Feak Bay),

South and South-East to the South shore of Deep Bay near its

Eastern end. The cultivated ground in the neighbourhood of Sheung

Shui and Ho Sheung Heung is nearly equally well served by both

routes.

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Enclosure A gives the approximate populations and

areas 'served by the two alternative routes and shows that the East

route serves about 3/5ths. of the population and little more than

1/2 the area to which the West route gives access. Fer mile of line

the population is about the same for either and the area 1/5th.

greater for the test route. In either case the population and