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21. During the year under review, among the goods transported to China by rail were 1,961 metric tons of personal effects, 102 metric tons f diplomatic belongings, 68 metric tons of sewing machines, 38 metric ons of newspapers and 30 metric tons of steel plates.

22. Some 3,856 metric tons of mail and mail packets, compared with ome 5,400 metric tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. This amount was distributed fairly evenly over he whole period under review.

23. Details relating to goods traffic appear in Appendix V.

24. Operation. Train punctuality for the year under review was not t all satisfactory for the first nine months due to the additional numbers of goods trains and other special trains which affected the timings of the assenger trains on a single line working. The timetable had to be revised o cope with the situation and considerable improvement was made after he introduction of the new timetable on 1st January, 1967.

Nos. of scheduled

passenger trains

Percentages

1.4.66- 1.1.67- 1.4.66- 1.4.66- 1.1.67- 1.4.66- 31.12.66 31.3.67 31.3.67 31.12.66 31.3.67 31.3.67

ť

'rains on time

'rains delayed for less than

5 minutes

rains delayed for 5 minutes

and over

lotal No. of passenger

trains run

25.

***

3,199 2,574

5,773 34.35 84.10 46.65

***

2,875 267 3,142 30.87

3,240

219

8.72 25.40

3,459 34.78 7.18 27.95

9,314

3,060 12,374 100.00 100.00 100.00

A total of 4,606 special trains was run during the year as against ,719 in the previous year, an increase of 887 or 23.85%. The number nd types of special trains run for the year under review are as follows:

i

Goods (loaded)

痰濕

Goods (empty)

Passenger

Passenger (empty)

Military

Ballast trains

Trial trains

躯

J

***

5

Up

Down

Total

1,919

1,919

***

1,501

1,501

298

298

596

91

91

182

2

2

4

190

190

380

12

12

24

2,094

2,512

4,606

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