9. Local Passenger Traffic. The increase shows that more people are using the railway. It also shows that the villages alongside the railway are becoming increasingly popular and fast developing into larger residential areas owing to the shortage of cheap houses in the urban areas.
10. On April 5th, 1956, the Ching Ming Festival, 61,110 passengers were carried, a figure which surpasses the previous record on the same day in 1955 by 6,295. Most of the passengers went to Sandy Ridge near Lowu and Wo Hop Shek near Fanling to visit the cemeteries. Twenty-two special trains were run in addition to the normal service on that day.
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The figures for passenger traffic, showing number of journeys and revenue, appear in Appendix VI.
12. Goods Traffic. Goods traffic improved upon that of the previous year by 46,269 tons in weight and $371,924 in revenue, percentage increases being 26.29 and 27.10 respectively.
13. The increase in foreign goods traffic in the up direction was mainly due to the larger volume of personal effects brought back to China by Overseas Chinese from Indonesia and Malaya.
14. The development of light industry in China and the exportation of its output was responsible for the increase of the downward foreign goods traffic.
15. Lighters and junks towed by launches using firewood as fuel are conveying goods at very low cost between Canton and Hong Kong. Transit goods for the mainland stored in the Colony are conveyed to Canton by this cheap means of transport which affects railway goods traffic to some extent. The rates are so low that both sections of the railway are unable to compete with them. Their delivery time is however extremely slow.
16. The principal commodities imported by rail into the Colony during the period under review are shown below:
Eggs
Newsprinting paper
Potatoes
Cotton piece goods
Fresh vegetables
Beans
Timber
Glass sheets
Cardboard
16,969 metric tons
16,498 11,827
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9,556
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5,463
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