the world. They have seen the way in which British Railways has developed the ́¡orld.
and applied the best of modern technology for the economic improvements of
ce. We will welcome further engineers to Derby.
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The members of my Mission are the most senior experts in their particular
field in Britain. We believe that the Ministry of Chinese Railways will be
prepared to send an equivalent mission to Britain in the spring including
Ex
members of Machimp and Techimpext.
British Railways is already working in Hong Kong through its consultancy
company Transmark for the electrification and modernisation of K.C.R. We
have undertaken to make outline proposals for similar work for the remainder
of the route to Canton. All the members of the Mission have studied the
route by locomotive riding, I myself rode with the Director of the Kwangchow
administration to the border on Wednesday. Mr Taylor on my left has been
holding meetings with the General Manager of KCR and Transmark, to ensure that
the provisions for traffic movement are compatible throughout. We believe
that, following the work presently proceeding on KCR and similar
electrification and resignalling work through to Canton a throughout journey
time from Hong Kong to Canton of less than 2 hours is possible excluding
frontier formalities. This will however require much detailed development.
The railways of China have already made great strides in technical
improvement. They are however anxious to make use of proven technology from
other countries either through the purchase of equipment, licensing
agreements or design assistance. Many potential areas of technical interest
were discussed and will be followed up quickly. Among these were complete systems for loading, transport and unloading of bulk commodities such as
coal, mineral ore, construction materials; special designs of freight wagons;
package design of tilting mechanisms for curve speed improvement; track
design for minimum maintenance, signalling control systems; computer based
freight resource control systems and many other areas of detailed technology.
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