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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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were Dick, Kerr & Company,of London, who carried out the whole of the work. The total length of single track is 14^ miles, laid in 9*4miles of route, to a gage of 3 ft. 6 ins., with rails of the girdertype, weighing 86 lbs. per lineal yard. Each rail-joint is doublebonded with 000000 S. W. G. copper bonds. The lines withinthe city are laid for the most part as center-pole construction,but the eastern portion of the route being outside the cityboundary, is laid as single line, with passing places equippedon the side-pole system. With the exception of a short branch line which runs to therace course, the route runs parallel with the water front, andaside from a short length at Quarry Bay is practically level.At Quarry Bay some road grading has been done, the originalgrade of 1 in 10 having been reduced to 1 in 15. BeyondQuarry Bay is the eastern terminus of the line, where is situ-ated the small Chinese village of Shankiwan. Owing to the varying nature of the ground, three forms of
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A SCENE ON ONE - OF THE MAIN STREETS OF HONG KONG, SHOWING THE CONTRAST IN TRANSPORTATION BY THE YOKE, RICKSHA AND TROLLEY CAR it was considered a most unhealthy place, owing to the virulenceof malaria, but to-day the efforts of the Sanitary Board on theone hand and the Afforestation Department on the other havecompletely altered these characteristics. During the summermonths the humidity of the atmosphere renders the heat verytrying to Europeans, but from September to March the weatheris all that could be desired. The population of Hong Kong isestimated at 284,000, and of these, 274,500 are Chinese. Itstrade is estimated at $250,000,000 per annum. It has excellentdock accommodation, is strongly fortified and is the permanentnayal base of England in the Far East. permanent way construction have been adopted. Where theground was solid the rails were bedded on a concrete beam18 ins. wide and 6 ins. deep; where the ground was not so gooda bed of concrete 6 ins. deep and 7 ft. 3 ins. in w

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