INFORMATION ON LAN-HSIN RR PROGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180119-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: May 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT INFORMATION 1953-1954
Economic; Transportation - Rail, construction,
COUNTRY China
DATE OF
HOW operation
PUBLISHED Daily. newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sian; Peiping
DATE
PUBLISHED 19 Nov 1953, 12 Feb 1954
LANGUAGE Chinese
INFORMATION ON LAN-HSIN :~ PROGRESS
WORK ON LAN_ffiIN RR BEYOND WU_CH'LAO-LTNG __ Sian, Chun-chung Jih-pao,
19 Nov 53
About 1 November 1953, construction work vas begur. on-the Lung-kou-pao
section of the Ian-Hain (Lsn-chow--Sinkiang) Railway. Lung-kou-pao is about
26 kilometers via the line oP the railway alignment, or 14 kilometers via
the motor road, from (the western entrance of the] Wu-ch'iao-ling [tunnel).
Originally, work on this section was not included in the 1953 Plans; but the
First Engineering Hureau, at its own request, was granted permission by the
Ministry of Railways to begin work in 1953 on this section so thst it could
be completed about the same time as the Wu-ch'iao-ling tunnel.
This regiaa is at sa elevation oP about 2,600 meters above sea level,
its climate is disagreeable and changeable, and it is classed as a grade 7
earthquake region. Prior to 1939, it vas the scene of a violent earthquake,
eo that the ground formation here is best described ea a jumble. According
to the protected alignment, the railway line will proceeC from the western
end oP the tunnel past a point where the Sha_kou station will be located,
thin axing around a large curve to the Lung-kou station. These latter two
stations are situated at a distance from each other of only 3 kilometers by
motor road, but by the rail, they will be 7,73 kilometers Prom each other.
Within this section the line will pass through five tunnels, cross one small
and two medium-sized bridges, one large bridge and ten culverts. The re-
quired cuttings and fill together amount to 944,000 fang [one Pang is 100
cubic feet] of earth and stone work. Thus the Lung-kou??pao section ranks
with the Wu-ch'ieo-ling section in size, difficulty, and importance.
AF early ea last June (1953), some worY.mea were sent to Lung-kou-pao to
build pounded-earth wall barracks for the use of the labor corps, and to do
other preparatory work. In mid-October, v~ork was started on Ch'ing Ho bridge
No 5; on 25 October, a beginning vas made on the open cuttings for the
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sPProachea to Lung-kou tunnel No 4. Dy 1 November, a start eras made on the
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fore the end of this year. Tunnels No 1 and No 2, one small brid
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grading for the sites of two stations, are to be
started during January and February 1954- Track laying for the Lung-kou-pao
section ~s expected to be finished in April or May 1954.
Electric generators have been installed at all the work sites. Two com-
pressed air excavators are provided for each tunnel, one at each end, Each
excavator has four pneumatic drills and pick hammers. Ch'ing Ho bridge No 5
is .:applied with derricks for work on excavations for abutment foundations,
pneumatic pile drivers, pissps, and when the time cones it will have a bridge
erection machine. Mechanical concrete mixers are also in use there. In all
earth moving work, mechanical equipment will be used to lighten Duman labor
as much as possible.
Heating stoves are installed in practically all of the earth-wall bar-
racks and in the especially made felt tents. Steam pipes or steam-heated
cherbers and straw blankets are used to protect freshly poured concrete from
freezing before it hen set. To prevent it from freezing, newly uncovered
earth that is to be excavated is covered with loose earth at night ae sug-
geated by the advanced experience of Soviet advisers. AL1 the working units
have conducted classes in methods of working under winter conditions. -- Hua
Erh-shah, local staff writer
CROSS NEGLIGENCE OF RAILF7AY REGULATIONS -_ Petping, Jen-min ~ih-pao,
12 Feb 54
In a letter to the editor, a correspondent complained that there is
wideeprerd carelessness and direct violntion of railway regulations in the
Northeast, particularly with reap=ct to the neglect of car r?Fairs and the
sending of care on the road when they are in an unfit condition. For in-
stance, regulation No 226 states that when n csr has defective brakes which
cannot be readily remtlied at the next station, it is forbidden to pu: such
a csr into a train. However, at Psi-c!i'eng-tzu, a subbuxeau inspector re-
fused to permit the dispatch oP a train made up of some csr, with brakes in
a defective condition. The station master referred the matter to the Cnin-
chou railway bureau which sent bock orders to ignore the orders of the Sn-
spector sad to dispatch the train.
7n another case, Decapod Type 1 Locomotive, iPo 26, was found by an
inspector to have fine cracks around the pivot of a connecting rod, In
spite of the inspector's written statement concerning its defective con-
dition, the locomotive was dispatched on orders from the bureau. Mogul
Type 1 Locomo*,ive, No 1250, on 22 January 1954, at Pai-ch'eng-tzu, was
found by the inspector to have cracks 4 millimeters wide In its exhaust
steam pipe and he called on the repair shop to remedy the defect. The
repairman refused. The inspector appealed to the deputy chief of the aub-
bureau who ordered that the locomotive be ~?epaired, whereupon the repair-
man complied under protest meanwhile constantly reviling the 1ne~ector
while cadres and others stood by laughing at the inspector's dlscomrui?i?
The correspondent complained that it is very difficult for inspectors
to do their duty under such conditions as these, and expressed the hope
that effective steps be taken to correct this situation, failing which ser-
ious accidents are bound to ensue.
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