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21. Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chiu-Kuang), 112 miles. Constructed with British capital and British engineers. The section in British territory, from Kowloon to Shumchün, 22 miles, was opened in October, 1910. Shumchün, 89 miles, was opened on October 3rd. Hankow Railway is to be made by a loop round the Samshui 30 miles, opened in 1915. Chinese capital.
The Chinese section, Canton to A connection with the Canton- north of Canton city. Canton-
22. Sunuing Railway (Hsin-Ning), Kongyik to Samkaphoi viâ Sunning, 55 miles. Chinese capital and Chinese engineers. Opened in 1909-10.
23. Yunnan Railway (Tien-Yueh), Laokai to Yunnanfu, 291 miles. An extension of the line from Hanoi. Metre gauge.
Built and controlled by French. Completed January, 1910.
Projected Railways
1. Chinchowfu to Aigun, 750 miles. Preliminary agreement signed in January, 1910, for American loan and British construction. Construction improbable.
2. Chengtingfu to Yehchow, 110 miles. To connect the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Railways. Concession granted to Germans. Probably superseded by Japanese Tsinan-Shun teh project.
3. Chefoo to Weihsien, 170 miles. To connect Chefoo with the Shantung Railway. Delayed for some years. Funds raised in 1915; Government contributing half.
4. Tungkwan to Honanfu (Hsi-T'ung), 730 miles. Surveyed in 1909. engineer engaged. Now absorbed in Lung Hai plan.
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5. Sianfu to Lanchowfu, 80 miles. Noted in the programme of the Board of Communications as to be surveyed in 1911, but the project is still somewhat indefinite.
6. Lanchowfu to Ilifu, over 1,250 miles. A still more indefinite item of the programme.
7. Sinyangchow to Fengyang or Pukow, 270 miles. Chinese Central Railways Co. authorised to raise a loan of £3,000,000 for the construction of this line, which will pass through Luchowfu, Linanchao and Chengyang Kwan. Surveys completed in 19:4, but construction delayed owing to war.
8. Chaochowfu or Swatow viâ Waichow to Sheklung or Shunchün, 200 miles. Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton- Kowloon Railway.
9. Macao to Fatshan (on the Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.
10. Kweilin to Chuanchow (Kwangsi), 80 miles. Preliminary survey made in 1909; no funds for construction.
11. Langson to Lungchow, 46 miles. A proposed French extension, metre gauge of the Hanoi-Langson line. It is proposed to continue this line to Nanning (150 miles).
12. Yunnanfu to Szechuan, 450 miles. To Suifu or to Luchow. Two American engineers were engaged by the Viceroy of Yunnan to survey in 1909. Probably metre gauge. There have been no developments since.
13. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed; 2 feet 6 inches or metre gauge. No developments.
14. Shasi to Singyifu (Kweichow) via Chengteh and Kueiyang with branch from Chengteh to Changsha, the whole aggregating 800 miles. Final agreement signed between the Chinese Government and Messrs. Paulings (British) on July 25th, 1914. Surveys completed.
15. Kiaochow (Kaomi) Yichow-fu railway (Shantung), to join the Tientsin-Nanking railway on the Kiangsu border; also a line from Tsinanfu (Shantung) to Shuntehfu (Chihli) joining the Tientsin-Pukow and the Peking-Hankow lines. To be constructed with Japanese capital.
16. Lung-Ts'in to Yü-Hai. Contract made in 1912, between the Chinese Government and the Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels, for the construction and equipment of the Railway, thereby authorising the company to issue a 5 per cent. gold loan of £10,000,000 for that purpose.
This line will run, generally, in an east and west direction, through the Provinces of Kansu, Shansi, Honan, and Kiangsu. Its course is laid from Lanchowfu, to pass through the important cities of Sianfu and Tungkwan, to absorb the existing line between Honanfu, Chengchow (where it crosses the Peking-Hankow line), and Kaifengfu, then to bend slightly southwards to Süchowfu (where it crosses the Tientsin-Pukow line), and thence to a port yet to be determined. Haichow, on the north coast of Kiangsu, Tungchow (distant about 76 miles from Shanghai) and Haimen (about 20 miles farther east), on the northern shore of the Yangtsze estuary, are all spoken of as the probable terminus
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