852
RAILWAY
The recent references to a coal dump at Kowloon, the Port development schemes, and the description by one correspondent to the paper of our "ridiculous railway," prompts some research into the earlier plans and projects for railway communication between Hongkong and other parts of the world. We find that a long overland railway scheme was mooted a good many years ago, in fact, a scheme for connecting Calcutta, Canton and Kowloon by rail was once seriously considered.
In 1858, Sir Macdonald Stephenson suggested such a scheme to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Subsequently, after completion of certain railway undertakings in India, he visited Hongkong, in 1864, and exhibited a wall map of another scheme which he had for connecting Calcutta, Hongkong and Peking. The suggestion was, however, regarded as premature, and it met with no encouragement on the part of the Chinese Government, so that nothing more was heard of it.
852
RAILWAY
The recent references to a coal dump at Kowloon, the Port development schemes, and the description by one correspondent to the paper of our "ridiculous railway," prompt's some research into the earlier plans and projects for railway communication between Hongkong and other parts of the world. We find that a long overland railway scheme was mooted a good many years ago, in fact, a scheme for connecting Calcutta, Canton and Kowloon by rail was once ser- iously considered.
In 1858, Sir Macdonald Stephenson suggested such a scheme to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Subsequently, after completion of certain railway undertakings in India, he visited Hongkong, in 1864, and exhibited a wall map of another scheme which he had for connecting Calcutta, Hong- kong and Peking. The suggestion was, however, regarded as premature, and it met with no encouragement on the part of the Chinese Government, so that nothing more was heard of it.
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