1974-1975 — Page 6

INTRODUCTION

The British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway consists of a single line with six passing points and runs from Kowloon Station in Tsim Sha Tsui to Lo Wu on the Chinese border. It is 36 kilometres (22 miles) long and has a

inches).

standard gauge of 1,435 mm. (4 feet 8

2. The daily traffic normally consists of 18 passenger trains each way, including a special train to and from University Station, and a maximum of eight freight trains. At weekends and public holidays additional passenger

There has been no through trains are run to cope with the increased demand. public passenger trains between Kowloon and Canton since 1949 and people travelling to and from China must change trains at the border. freight wagons travel across the border without transhipment. an hour to complete a journey by train between the two terminals in the British territory, including stops at seven intermediate stations.

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It takes about

GENERAL SURVEY

Chargeable freight tonnage

1,246,457

The year 1974/75 was another year in which new records were set regarding goods and passenger traffic. The following table gives an account :

3.

Percentage Increase/Decrease

6.35

1973-74

1974-75

1,167,292

Number of passengers

13,235,023

13,901,333

+ 5.03

Head of livestock

1,537,018

1,517,766

1.25

Goods revenue

$10,680,776

$13,559,038

+ 26.95

Passenger revenue

$11,315,657

$15,129,771

+ 33.71

Gross railway revenue

$23,494,507

$30,723,929

+ 30.71

Recurrent expenditure

$21,389,529

$24,800,885

+ 15.95

4. All freight tonnage referred to in this Report represents chargeable weight in metric tons. The passenger figures are based on the number of tickets sold at stations and in trains. As children three years old or under are carried free of charge, the actual number of people using the trains was greater.

5.

Imports from China amounted to 1,165,975 tons, representing 99.89% of the total freight traffic. This is less than the previous year' s figure by 77,327 tons. Export tonnage was 778 tons, compared with 2,931 last year.

The set-back was Freight carried within the Territory amounted to 539 tons.

mainly due to the economic recession but there was an increase in the pro- portion of higher rated traffic.

6. The number of passengers who travelled within the Territory was 12,255,513, an increase of 4.54% on the previous year's figure. In the same period 1,645,820 persons travelled to and from China.

This compared with 1,511,453

the previous year.

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