TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.
Jaqu
Water
Towers.
Notes.
A
·
N
אני
6 or 7
N = 1 N N
T
Good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west.
Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country,
Later pass a small tunnel.
Later cross g
Later Wei-shui Riveridge supported by one stone pier.
River on right.
Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses tho Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers
Just before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave.
Now pass through many
stones, some of rock, legs, some of loess, standing without support or banked with Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very again on right. low. Country wilder; through rock cattings.
Passed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge Soon cross stone or brick bridge over tributary stream. River still on left. on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.
Just before station a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, mark line
of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 ) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.
Now dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.
Country with some loess terraces;
hills. Two tunnels.
Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.
A tunnel and a girder bridge.
west. Several houses for Village called Sa-chiang-kon bridgos over tributaries. Up valley between hills.
River bed or on for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-
It is the station for
French railway employés. Now more loess. Cross two stone
A train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2·80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5-2 r.M. Water tower being built. Station under construction.
Village called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some looss terraces.
An engine-house auder construction. Station 1-mile to south-east of city.
P.51.
98.3
2.39
2.50
3.6
2.55
3.11
8.28
3-35
3.47
4.2
4.9
Kilometres
from
Station,
Arrive,
Depart.
of
Chen-t'ou.
Sidings.
•
8
AT
31
..
36 2
ZR
4.15
4.20
4.31
•
4.43
4.46
+
*
68.7
Cheng-chia-ong-th..
6.9
II.9
器
0.9
5.10
5.28
61.9
容量
་ ་
99.9
6.50
6.54
7.13
7.26
86-4
7.41
7.56
་ན
8.12
8.18
8.34
8:35
91
OID
115
Usia-p'an-shih
Pei-yang-shu Yen-hui
Luan-Jiu
..
121
Yen-chuang
Tsai-yü
128
135
Pio-tiou
141
151
19T
169
177
186
194
203
..
**
Shou-yang Hsien Ko-chuang.. San-hu***
Cha-hai-yi.. Ching-chuang
Liu-chia-chuang Tuan-ting..
..
..
..
..
..
Tung-chao-chuang ..
18.6
8.54
09.8
61.6
9.45
3
When completed, T'ai-yüan-fu will be 242 kilom. from Chen-t'ou. Notes. Sidings 100 yards to 150 yards long, Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked "Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.
There were three third class corridor carriages, cach could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each
van carries 20 tons,
Fares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 e. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.
Railway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.
Rails.-One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish- plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.
Telegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.
Line very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no main had fallen I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers it was greener.
The line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu,
armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.
Time-Table-There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.
Line at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry ("Ma-san-tui ") of the provincial troops ("Hsün-fang-tui") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-ful, and about 200 yards to mile to west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.
(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.
Tai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.
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