Completion of Kirin-Tunhua Railway Through Undeveloped but Well-timbered Country: Japanese Engineering Feat Mukden, Sept. 27.
The new Kirin-Tunhua railway Tine will be opened to_ provisional traffic from October 1, but the formal inauguration has been put off until the 10th, owing to the delay to bbe ballasting work caused by the heavy rains during the latter part of the. summer. The line is about 130 miles long from Kirin to Tunhua and, according to the schedlules worked out by the administention, this distance will be covered in eight hours by the passenger trains.
The line traverses mountainous country, and its construction has involved several difficult pieces of wsineering work, including a bridge across the Sungari River, which is 450 metres wide, and several tunnels with an aggregate Tength of 9,300 metres, the longest of which is the Laoychling tunnel which had to be blasted through srranite rock. Its length is over a mile (1820 metres), and it was completed in March after 19 months? work at a cost of about Y, 1,500,000,
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