The following particulars of the Shantung Railway are taken from the Deutscha Bauzeitung (Berlin)
The Shantang Railway, completed in 1904, is about 245 miles long, ranning between Tsingtao and Tsinanfa, the ital of the province of Shantung, with a branch line of twenty-four miles to the Poschan coalfields, The longitudinal section shows that the main line is made up of forty-two per cent level, twenty-nine per cent rise, and twenty-nine per cent fall, with a maximum grade of six per cent. The permanent way has been constructed to ordinary traffic at a speed not 37.8 per hour. The article contains detailed accounts of the survey, as well as full particulars with regard to the cost of land, labour, transport and materials, The sury trip of Ind vanying in breadth between 500 and 2,000 yards, and cost about £36 per mile, being completed at the rate of ten miles per month, The land was expropriated in accordance with (hinese law, 1s, 1d. being paid per square yard, with a nareharge of ight per cent for land in crop and near the townships. The earthwork was sublet in contracts of six miles in length, and was paid for at schedule prices, 1s. 4d. per cubic yard for ordinary earthwork, and 10d. per cubic yard for rock. All bridges and culverts were standardized, as well as the: wooden and steel scaffoldings used for erection.
The railway was five years in construction and cost 89,700 148,000
2,700
Signals, blockhouses, ete.
728,000 759,000
13,200 106,000
85,000"
Materials (coals, ete.) 310,000
203,000
200,000 or, including interest on capital, about £9,200 per The gross of the railway in 1905 were about £680 per mile, of which two-thirds were derived from goods-traffic. The working expenses for the same year were £265 per mile.
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