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CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT 1977

主席報告書 一九七七年

Left:

Excavation at Tsim Sha Tsui

Station under Nathan Road 左:

彌敦道下面之尖沙咀站挖 掘工程。

Right:

Aerial view of a section of

Nathan Road beneath which a station is being built

行:

彌敦道一段鳥瞰。 一個嚡 站正在道路下面建造中。

The Corporation

During the second full year of the Corporation's existence which ended on 31st December 1977, satisfactory progress continued with both the civil engineering and the electrical and mechanical contracts for the Modified Initial System, the first phase of the Mass Transit Railway. Also

Government agreed that the second phase of the

Railway should proceed, the Extension to

Tsuen Wan.

Contracts

The civil engineering contracts for the Modified Initial System passed the half-way mark in

January 1978 and during 1977 in North Kowloon the first of these contracts, let in October 1975,

made substantial progress towards completion.

Approximately 10 kilometres of tunnel are

now concreted out ready for track laying

which has already commenced at the Kowloon Bay Depot. The underground stations at Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Tong, Lok Fu, Wong Tai Sin, Diamond Hill and Choi Hung have, in many instances, been completed down to track level and in all cases are nearing that stage. The overhead section of the Railway, including the stations at Kowloon Bay, Ngau Tau Kok and Kwun Tong made excellent progress and there is

every possibility that the opening of this overhead

section of the line will be brought forward by

some six months to coincide with the planned

opening of the underground section from Shek Kip Mei to Choi Hung in September 1979. Thus it is possible that in September next year approxi- mately one-half of the Modified Initial System will be opened to the public.

Civil engineering construction has not, however, been without its difficulties. At the Kowloon Bay Depot, for example, the initial piling contract fell behind schedule by some six months which has delayed the immediately following contracts for the columns and the podium structure which they support. Nonetheless, this piling contract has now been virtually completed and approximately a fifth of the total podium area of 25 acres has been built. The construction of the Corporation's Administration Building on the podium is well under way and construction of the

first residential block on the podium is about to commence. These initial delays at Kowloon Bay should not affect the planned opening dates for the Railway.

As indicated, the track-laying at Kowloon Bay

and also in the tunnels from Kowloon Bay to Choi

Hung has begun in anticipation of rolling stock

deliveries and the commencement of commis-

sioning and test running during 1978.

地下鐵路公司

截至一九七七年十二月卅一日止之本公 司成立第二個完整年度內,地下鐵路「修正 早期系統」 (即第一期工程)之土木工程與 電機及機械工程合約,均續有令人滿意之進 展。香港政府亦已同意進行地下鐵路第二期 工程,即荃灣支綫工程。

工程合約

一九七八年一月,「修正早期系統」之土 木工程合約已完成過半;一九七五年十月批 出之第一批北九龍區土木工程合約,在一九 七七年間進展良佳,現已接近完成。現在, 約有十公里之隧道已完成混凝土襯墊工程, 可展開鋪軌工作,後者已在九龍灣車廠一段 開始。石硤尾、九龍塘、樂富、黃大仙、鑽 石山及彩虹等地下車站,許多已建至車軌所 在之車站底層,或已接近此階段。架空之鐵 路,包括九龍灣、牛頭角及觀塘各車站在內 ,進展良佳,此段架空鐵路大有可能提前六 個月啟用,使其可與石硤尾至彩虹一段地下 鐵路同時於一九七九年九月通車。因此,到 明年九月,「修正早期系統」可能約有一半可 通車,為市民服務。

但是,土木工程的進展並非毫無阻礙。 例如,以九龍灣車廠而言,打樁合約比原定

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