22. A total of 7,605 cold storage wagons was sent over to the British Section by the Chinese Section, containing the following goods:
No. of
Description of goods
wagons
128
Chestnuts
1,911
Eggs
251
Fish
***
2,649
Fresh fruits
1,202
Meat
53
Meat, preserved
430
Poultry
34
Prawns
18
Sea shells
19
Sundries
910
Vegetables
7,605
:
:
Weight in metric tons
2,338
28,814
5,378
48,004
27,605
1,120
9,461
748
287
446
10,997
135,198
23. During the year under review, among the goods transported to China by rail were 46 metric tons of sewing machines and 20 metric tons of newspapers.
24. 5,447 metric tons of mail and mail packets, compared with 5,384 metric tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. This amount was distributed fairly evenly over the whole year.
25. Details relating to goods traffic appear in Appendix V.
26. Operation. Train punctuality for the year under review was not at all satisfactory. This was caused partly by the imposition of speed restrictions on trains for the construction of Cross-harbour Tunnel Road Connections and Ho Man Tin Road Extension, and for repairs to Railway Bridges Nos. 20 and 22, and partly by the running of more special passenger trains and goods trains on this single line railway.
No. of scheduled passenger trains
Trains on time
Trains delayed for less than 5 minutes Trains delayed for 5 minutes and over
Total No. of passenger trains run
6
Percentage
4,373
35.10
3,671
29.47
4,414
35.43
12,458
100.00
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