CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 166

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be approximately three hundred thousand dollars, reskoning

them at seventy-five thousand dollars apiece.

Time is money

(b) Another factor is economy of time.

only when it can be utilised to advantage. It is scarcely necessary to mention that transportation by water takes longer than by railway, but it is not sufficient that the railway

times should be reduced to the same time as those for the Bamo

Journey by water. They should, and can, be reduced below,

and the time schedules arranged in such a way as to give passengers the opportunity to use to the best advantage the timek

saved. It is proposed, therefore, that, as soon as the re-sleepering of the line can be completed to such an extent as to ensure absolute safety, the time for the journey between Canton and Hong Kong must be reduced to three and a half hours. The morning express train should leave half an hour later than the Hong Kong and Canton steamer, at 8.50.a.m. so as to give people longer time in the morning and make it leas of a hurry to catch the train as compared with the steamer. The trains will arrive at their destination at twelve noon, leaving the

whole afternoon free for the transaction of business. The

afternoon expresses should leave at six and arrive at mine

thirty, which would interfere with neither business or rent

hours as contrasted with the water route schedule which breaks

into both. Passengers from Hong Kong who wish to transfer to the country junks going back to their home villages will find this time schedule most convenient as these junks generally set sail a little after midnight.

The substitution of other designations, such as tourist ears, rattan seata, wooden seats, etc., for first, second and third class as now in use, would do away with class distino- tions which ara odious to some sensitive people and would

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