CO129-559-1 Canton - Hankow Railways 15-1-1936 - 23-6-1936 — Page 31

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Report of the Manager and Chief Engineer of the Kowloon- Canton Railway, British Section, on his visit to the Construction Work of the Canton-Hankow Railway in

November, 1935.

I.

GENERAL.

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1. The tour of inspection was undertaken at the

invitation of the Managing Director of the Southern

Administration and the Director and Engineer-in-Chief of

the Chuchow-Shaochow Section (Construction section) of

the Canton-Hankow Railway.

2. The itinerary of the tour was as follows :

22.11.35 - Left Kowloon at 4.50 p.m. by the Up express.

Arrived Canton 7.47 p.m.

Canton.

Spent the night in

23.11.35 Left Wongsha (Canton) Station by the 7.45 a.m.

Through Express to Lok Chong in a reserved

24.11.35

saloon. Mr. Li Lu Chao, the Managing Director

of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway and Mr. S.S. Lee, the Secretary of the

Southern Administration of the Canton-Hankow

Railway, accompanied me.

Arrived Lok Chong

(170th mile) at 4.55 p.m. and spent the night

in the coach.

Left Lok Chong at 7 a.m. by motor trolley for

Ping Shek (202nd mile). Mr. Y.C. Lee the

District Engineer, Ping Shek, and other Chinese

Railway officials accompanied me.

Inspected consolidation work in progress and

the Sun Huan Ho Bridge at Railhead (205th mile).

This bridge is the largest of the 5 reinforced

concrete arch bridges to be constructed.

Returned to Ping Shek and left at 12 noon for

Heng chow (338th mile) by motor car on the