New Rolling Stock Brought To Shanghai Freight service on the Shanghai-Nanking and—Shanghai-Hangchow Railways is expected to be resumed very soon, the railway authorities having brought to Shanghai rolling stock and locomotives from Peiping and Tientsin, it was reported last might.
At present, only passengers are carried on the two lines. Many requests were made to the railway management recently by Chinese merchants for the resumption of freight service so as to hasten the revival of commerce and industry in Kiangsu and Chekiang, the reports said.
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