8. According to the figures released by the Immigration Department 987,177 persons entered and 931,582 left Hong Kong by land during the year. This compares with 725,438 arrivals and 692,049 departures in the previous Most travelled from and to China by train via Lo Hu, the respective arrival and departure figures being 775,564 and 735,889, compared with 635,293 and 624,142 in the previous year.
year.
9. It should be noted that the passenger figures quoted in this Report are based on the number of tickets sold at stations and in trains. As children three years of age or under are carried free of charge, the actual number of people using trains was greater.
10. Restrictions imposed by the single track and insufficient rolling stock continued to create problems in handling the increasing number of
Additional passengers especially during daily and seasonal peak periods. facilities, however, will be available next year when 40 new carriages are put into service. Twenty eight will replace some old rolling stock and twelve will be used to lengthen the existing trains.
11. A new 2,000 H.P. model G26CU diesel electric locomotive ordered from the Clyde Engineering Corporation in Australia was delivered on 4th March, 1974.
12. Satisfactory progress was made during the year on the construction of the new Terminus at Hung Hom which will replace the existing terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui, in 1975.
13. Planning work continued on the double tracking of the railway line between Hung Hom and Sha Tin, excluding the Beacon Hill Tunnel. This project when completed in 1976, will relieve congestion and facilitate better time- tabling and enable an additional hourly capacity of 2 trains in each direction.
14. Other improvements which it is proposed should be carried out in con- junction with the doubling of the track are the remodelling of Mong Kok and Sha Tin Stations and the construction of a loop line near the Railway Work- Consideration was shops in Ho Tung Lau to the race course site in Sha Tin. also given during the year to the following projects:
(a) Extension of the track-widening from Sha Tin to Tai Po Market and
from Tai Po Market to Lo Wu.
(b) Construction of a new railway goods yard in the New Territories. (c) Construction of a new railway tunnel through Beacon Hill which will accommodate two railway tracks with lower approach gradients to the tunnel both North and South of the Hill.
(d) Increasing the spans of some railway bridges at Sha Tin in order to
prevent flooding.
(e) Increasing the spans of some railway underbridges in Kowloon in order
to improve road traffic flow.
15.
Approval was obtained from Government to proceed with the construction of a siding at Fo Tan for the unloading of fuel oil imported from China.
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