(b) To improve the loading and unloading facilities in the goods yard within the Kowloon Terminus, some 1,400 sq. yards of the yard were surfaced with cement concrete.
(c) To cater for more goods wagons, two additional sidings were laid in the Goods Yard at Blackheads. The work involved the laying of four turnouts and 1,695 yards of plain track. A total length of 790 feet of the existing sidings was also removed to improve the traffic flow within the yard.
(d) To ensure the continuous supply of flushing water during the dry season, bore hole wells were drilled at Yau Ma Tei and Tai Po Market Stations. Additional wells were also sunk at Fanling and Lo Wu Stations.
(e) A waiting shelter, with heat insulation roofing resting on steel trusses, was erected at Fanling Station. The shelter, measuring 30 feet × 22 feet, was to replace the old shelter demolished during the laying of the 54" diameter water pipes under the platform.
46. Typhoon Damages. The year under review was phenomenal in that no less than ten typhoons visited or affected Hong Kong. Although the accumulative effects of these typhoons caused considerable damages to the way and structures, traffic was suspended only once when a landslide occurred at Mile 54 after passing of Typhoon ‘Dot' in October. Repairs to typhoon damages carried out were as follows:
(a) Construction of a mass concrete retaining wall to repair the slip
near Bridge No. 6.
(b) Removal of silt from the turntable pit inside Locomotive Yard
amounting to 270 cubic yards.
(c) Repairs to 1,600 sq. yards of the seawall between Mile 91 and
Mile 13.
(d) Repairs to 1,200 sq. yards of the asphalt felt roofing over the goods shed at Kowloon Terminus and over the staff quarters at Yau Ma Tei and Sha Tin.
(e) Repairs to 400 linear yards of fence at the Locomotive Yards
and at Tai Po Market Station.
(f) Removal of earth washed onto the formation at Mile 54 amount-
ing to 980 cubic yards.
47. Railway Land. The following areas of railway land were let out on permits for various purposes:
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