52.
Other cold or frozen goods included poultry, vegetables, fish, prawns, chestnuts, preserved meat, milk and ice cream.
53.
Mail and mail packets amounting to 4,940 tonnes compared with 5,874 tonnes in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China. The amount was distributed evenly over the whole period under review except a seasonal peak of 714 tonnes in January which reflected the approach of the Chinese New Year.
54.
Full details relating to goods traffic are shown in Appendix XI.
OPERATIONS
55.
After the introduction of the new timetable on 30th November, 1975, the incidence of passenger trains arriving less than five minutes' late reached 92.82% compared with 78.56% of the preceding year. The per- centage of trains arriving at their destination on time was 77.96 com- pared with 44.84 of the preceding year.
No. of scheduled
passenger trains
Percentage
Trains on time
11,218
77.96
Trains delayed for less
than 5 minutes
2,139
14.86
Trains delayed for more
than 5 minutes
1,033
7.18
Total No. of passenger
trains run
14.390
100.00
56.
The number of freight trains were 2,098 from China and 1,956 to China, the latter were virtually empty.
57.
The number and types of special trains run during the year were as follows :
Up
Down
Total
Passenger Passenger (empty)
Ballast
221
220
441
106
106
51.
51
102
Total :
272
377
649
* * * * 2-2
* * * =
58.
On 30th October, 1976, train departure signals were introduced at Mong Kok and Fanling Railway Stations.
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