Head 16 KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY
Approved Estimate 1948-49
Estimate 1949-50
122
39
Sub-heads
€
1 Personal emoluments
831,614
791,055
Other Charges
2 Advertising
1,000
2,000 (17)
3 Ballast
22,000
12 Locomotives, repairs and painting
4 Bridgework
5 Carriages, repairs and painting
6 Coal and fuel oil
7 Compensation
8 Formation and line protection
9 Fuel, light, and power
10 Goods waggons, repairs and painting
11 Incidental expenses
13 Lubricants
25,000 (17)
18,000
6,000 (16)
507,320
350,000 (16)
1,400,000
1,200,000 (16)
5,000
5,000
50,000
30,000 (16)
79,400
60,000 (16) (18)
208,000
8,200
361,540
50,700
14 Medical and sanitation
4,900
15 Minor works (maintenance of way and structures)
36,000
50,000 (16)
150,000 (16) 30,000 (16) 1,500 (16) 36,000
2,100 (16) (19)
16 Miscellaneous allowances
643,350
700,000 (17)
17 Newspapers and periodicals
1,500
750 (16) (20)
18 Office equipment and furniture
12,000
12,000 (21)
19 Printing, stationery, and tickets
37,000
10,000 (16)
20 Rails and fastenings
45,000
33,000 (16)
21 Railway police
83,000
83,000
22 Rent of quarters and offices
7,880
23 Signals and switches
24 Sleepers
9,080 (17)
39,000
100,000
15,000 (16) 100,000
25 Station buildings and staff quarters
112,200
70,000 (16)
26 Stores and equipment
91,000
23,000) (16) (22)
27 Stores, depreciation and losses
10,400
5,000 (16)
28 Telegraphs
10,000
10,000
29 Tools and plant
95,000
30 Transport of stores and travelling expenses
50,500 (16)
2,204
750 (16) (23)
31 Tunnels
2,000
2,000
32 Uniforms
48,400
20,000 (16)
33 Upkeep of vehicles
38,000
12,000 (16)
34 Unallocated stores:
Nightsoil disposal
432
(24)
Purchase, freight, and other charges
$500,000
Deduct value of stores to be issued to other
subheads
$500,000
Total Other Charges
4,130,426
3,103,680
Special Expenditure
35 Bath-house and latrines
36 Expenses for officers training in the UK 37 Lowering of goods platform levels
28,000, 13,440
11,000 (16)
11,760 (16) 30,000
38 Motor transport
39 Relaying and renewal of permanent way
1,400,000
9,000 1,040,000 (16)
40 Repairs to quarters
50,000
41 Repairs to goods shed
15,000
42 Repairs to workshops
126,000
190,000 (17)
43 Time-recording clocks
3,200
44 Water supply, Lo Wu
45 Wo Hop Shek cemetery scheme
9,000 180,000
Additional stores building
50,000
Fencing of locomotive yard
60,000
Passenger shelters, Shatin and Taipo Market Typewriter
10,000
900
Total Special Expenditure
1,688,340
6,650,380
1,548,960
5,443,695
Total Expenditure
(1) Stipulated increments.
(2) Grade now divided into classes.
(3) One post previously provided for under Temporary
staff.
(4) Two new posts.
(5) One Tracer in place of one Draughtsman Class
III.
(6) Personnel changed.
(7) One Assistant Land Surveyor Class II in place
of one Assistant Engineer.
(8) One post abolished.
(9) Three posts abolished.
(10) Six posts abolished.
(11) Four posts abolished.
(12) 14 posts abolished. Eight posts provided for two
months only. (13) 30 posts abolished.
(14) Six Porters in place of six Wagon Cleaners.
(15) Provides for:
One Shroff ($200 per month); Eight Clerks ($150 per month).
(16) Considered sufficient.
(17) Considered necessary.
(18) Title changed from Power, electric fans, and
light.
(19) Previously provided for in part under Nightsoil
disposal.
(20) Title changed from Publications.
(21) Title changed from Furniture.
(22) Title changed from Stores,
(23) Title changed from Transport and travelling
allowances.
(24) Provided for under Incidental expenses.
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