RAILWAY, "Tae construction of the railway line from Woosung to Shanghai has already monde considerable progress, in accord-ince with plas that were completed and approved some time ago, an inspection of which has been kindly permitted us. Indeed, the work of construction has so far advanced that the engineers look forward to the line being opened for traffic early next spring. Already the lot appropriated to. the terminal station at Woosung has been cleared, and considerable progress has been made in the building of a locomotive house and workshops, the jon house and warehouse for goods traffic the site being close on the river embankment and almost immediately behind the buildings formerly known as the French godowns, and, therefore, within a very short distance of the Harbour Master's station. It will therefore be a very convenient position for receiving railway material of all sorts that has been contracted for in Europe and America, When fully completed the Woosung station will occupy a very extensive area, as the -railway scheme embraces the erection at some future period of a grand system of wharves and godowns, both to the north and south of the station site, to which branch lines will run so as to facilitate the transport of enrgo landed from vessels." The wharves and godowns to the tiorth are intended to receive cargo discharged from ocean-going steamers, will extend from the Woosung Creek to the forts; and the wharves will be bunded out into a sufficient depth of water for deep draught steamers to lie alongside. To reach these wharves the branch line from the Woosung station will circuit round the town of Woosung, so that no native houses will be interfered with, and for this purpose all the requisite land has already been acquired. The wharves and godowns to the south will be situated above the Harbour Master's station, and clear of the Bar channel,
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