The Archive · 1926

Sie Transit Gloria The glory of the Soochow Road

Station departed with this event, When doing duty at the Lyceum Theatre the members of the company used it for stabling the Rony which took a fire truck there, but otherwise for a long time it) was used largely as a resting place for obsolete pieces of equipment which. for sentimental reasons nobody wanted to discard, Since that time a few small structural "alterations have dreamt of by the Brigade in the station These will now go Thursday the work of will begin, ise, and demolition The reason for this demolition] will readily be understood upon studying the Chapoo Road Bridge which is now rapidly nearing completion.

As its southern extremity it terminates in a bold sweep, this for the purpose of giving clear excess for traffic to Museum Read, and then onwards to the Peking Road artery. When this is in being a considerable amelioration of heavy traffic conditions between eas: ind west should be effected, and sentimental reasons can allow any building to stand in the w The photograph which we reproduce above was taken on January 1, 1911, and was probably che last, group of the company taken prior to being transferred to Sinza.

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