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5. The running of through trains on both Sections and the interchange of traffic and rolling stock of all kinds between the two Sections shall be regulated in manner hereinafter provided.
6. The Directorate undertakes that the Chinese Section from its terminus at Canton to the aforesaid junction with the British Section shall be completed with all possible speed.
Passenger Traffic.
7.—(a.) As soon as the Chinese Section has been completed between the points mentioned in the last preceding article, two through express trains for the carriage of passengers, passengers' luggage, mails and railway parcels shall be run daily each way between Kowloon and Cauton: the number of such through express trains shall be increased or decreased according as the amount of traffic shall be found after consultation between the two Administrations to justify such increase or decrease; through tickets shall be issued by each Section for first, second and third class passengers by the said trains irrespective of nationality at the through fares specified in Schedule A hereto attached; passengers travelling from Kowloon to Canton or vice versa without leaving the train at any intermediate station shall not be required to carry passports.
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(b.) Every such through express train shall have precedence over every other train which is not through express, and all such other trains shall be shunted so as to give the through express trains
a clear road.
(c.) The coaches for such through express trains shall be supplied by the two Sections in the proportion of four Chinese Section coaches to one British Section coach in the manner provided in Schedule B hereto attached, or in such other manner as the Administrations of the two Sections shall jointly agree upon,
(d.) Whenever either Section fails for any reason to supply a coach in accordance with these rules, it shall pay a sum of five cents per mile per coach to the other Section.
(e) In order to insure that the staff controlling the trains shall be Chinese on the Chinese Section and British on the British Section, the engine and train staff for the through trains shall be changed at the junction station at Shum Chun. This clause may be modified at any time by mutual agreement between the Administrations of the two Sections.
(f) When in circumstances of political emergency it is necessary either for the Hongkong Government or for the Chinese Government to suspend the running of through trains, due notice (not less than six hours clear) shall be given by the one Government to the other and compensation shall be paid by the Government requesting such suspension at a daily rate of half the average gross receipts of the other Section on through traffic as ascertained from the accounts for the corresponding month of the previous year, or failing that for the last preceding month,
8. In addition to the through express trains there shall be free interchange of passenger traffic of all kinds between the two Sections at Shum Chun Station, and for the purpose of facilitating such interchange there shall be constructed at Shum Chun Station a double platform for the interchange of passenger traffic so arranged that Chinese Section passenger trains may be run alongside one side and British Section passenger trains alongside the other side thereof, and the Chinese Section will permit British Section trains to run from the junction of the two Sections to such platform as aforesaid, and will also grant to the British Section sufficient accommodation on such platform for the necessary Railway and Customs staff for the effective regulation of the interchange of traffic upon payment of such equitable sums by way of rent as may hereafter be mutually agreed upon: the amount of such rent to be based upon the actual cost of the construction, including interest thereon during construction, and upon the cost of maintenance of the portion of such platform allotted for British use and of the connecting road and sidings provided for British trains.
9. Sectional passenger trains will be run on each Section from and to Shum Chun Station in accord- ance with time schedules arranged by each Section to facilitate as far as possible the interchange of passenger traffic at Shum Chun Station, and such trains when run by the British Section shall have the right to use the Joint Junction Station at Sham Chun, and the Chinese Section hereby agrees to receive such trains on arrival and to despatch them on their return journey to the British Section in accordance with the Time Table provided by the British Section.
10. Should it at any time, in the opinion of the Administrations of the two Sections, be considered that the conditions of the passenger traffic render the through running of Sectional Passenger Trains profitable in the same proportion to both Sections, arrangements will be made by the two Administra- tions for such through running, and the trains so run shall then be called the "Through Slow Trains”. Such trains shall then be run either wholly as "Passenger" or as "Mixed Passenger and Goods' trains, and the provision of stock for the saine shall follow the conditions applying to the provision of
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