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Heavy Rain Destroys Part of Railway Between Beijing, Kowloon

A section of the railway between Beijing and Kowloon was destroyed Thursday morning amid heavy rain in east China's Jiangxi Province.

 

At least 30 meters of the fence between the railway and the mountains near Guanxi township was destroyed and about 5,000 cubic meters of stone and earth were washed away, said railway authorities in the provincial capital Nanchang.

 

The accident, which was reported at 10:50 a.m., affected two-way traffic, they said.

 

After two hours of emergency repairs, southbound traffic resumed at 12:45 p.m., and railway workers have carried 1,500 cubic meters of stone and earth to reinforce the fence, hoping to resume passenger and cargo trains bound to Beijing soon.

 

Beijing-Kowloon Railway runs 2,553 kilometers through Beijing, Tianjin and the provinces of Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangdong. The railway went into operation in September 1996.

 

Rainstorms over the past 10 days have affected 1.16 million people in Jiangxi Province, washed down 1,700 houses and destroyed 358 kilometers of roads, the local flood control headquarters said Thursday.

 

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2006)

 

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