49.
Additionally the head of livestock conveyed by rail for the same period was 1,811,637 including 1,736,650 pigs, an increase of 19.36% over the previous year.
50.
A total of 6,555 cold storage wagons carrying 120,569 tons of cold/frozen goods were received by the railway from China including :-
No. of wagons
1,976
1,619
1,057
Description of goods
Eggs
Fresh fruits Meat
Tons
29,646
29,388
26,409
51.
Other cold or frozen goods included poultry, vegetables, fish, prawns, chestnuts, preserved meat, milk and ice cream.
52.
Mail and mail packets amounting to 5,874 tons compared with 6,019 tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. The amount was distributed evenly over the whole period under review except for a seasonal peak in January which reflected the approach of the Chinese New Year.
53.
Full details relating to goods traffic are shown in Appendix X.
OPERATIONS
54.
At the beginning of the year, train punctuality was unsatis- factory but was improved after the introduction of a new time table on 30th November, 1975 with the number of passenger trains arriving less than five minutes late, reaching 80%. year was 58.
The percentage the preceding
No. of scheduled
Trains on time
Trains delayed for less than 5 minutes Trains delayed for more than 5 minutes Total No. of passenger trains run :
55.
passenger trains
Percentage
5,897
44.84
4,433
33.72
2,820
21.44
13,150
100.00
The number of freight trains were 2,343 from China and 2,076 to China, the latter virtually empty.
56.
The number and types of special or additional trains run during the year were as follows :-
Up
Down
Total
Passenger Passenger (empty) Ballast trains
568
565
1,133
1
98
98
106
106
212
674
769
1,443
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