RAILWAYS. No. 30-Continued. LENGTH OF RAILWAY LINE open for TRAFFIC in the various COLONIAL POSSESSIONS at EXPENDITURE during each 1889 1890 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895 બે । £ Miles. £ £ b b b b b b b b b b b b b b (a) Prior to 1898 a Government subsidy was granted annually to the Barbados Railway Company, the amount of which is excluded from the revenue given in the Table. (b) Including the revenue and expenditure of the San Fernando Tramway (7) miles in length). From 1897 the tramway was leased to the Cipero Commissioners at an annual rental varying from 150l. to 2307. The railway telegraph and telephone receipts and expenses are excluded in years prior to 1902. (c) The line was under re-construction in 1898. The expenditure in 1899 includes the cost thereof. (a) The returns are for the 12 months ended 30th September of the year stated. No. 30-Continued. RAILWAYS. the end of each of the Years 1889 to 1903, together with the REVENUE and Working of those Years-Continued. (e) Exclusive, in 1896 and subsequent years, of a private line in the interior of the Colony, 19 miles in length, for which no further particulars can be given. (For 12 months ended 31st March of the year following that stated. (9) The railway was taken over by the Government in 1890 and re-opened for traffic on February 25th, 1892. (4) For ten months only. RAILWAYS. No. 31.-LENGTH of RAILWAY LINE open in the various COLONIAL POSSESSIONS stated, and Date of OPENING of the first NOTE.-The above figures are exclusive of the length of railways open for traffic (a) Mileage for 31st March of the year following that stated. (c) Inclusive of electric railways. In 1901 and subsequent years the figures also include the length of electric street railways. (d) The first private line was opened in 1864, but this was taken over by the Government in 1876. (1) The private lines opened in Natal between 1860 and 1878 were taken over by the Government in the latter year. RAILWAYS. on the 31st December of each of the undermentioned years, unless otherwise GOVERNMENT or PRIVATE LINE. in various British Protectorates, for which see Appendices, pp. 389 et seq. (e) In addition there were 361 miles of line in the Orange River Colony worked by the Cape Government. Inclusive of 169 miles of leased lines. () The Jamaica Government Railway was sold to a private company in January, 1890, but was taken over again by the Government on August 16th, 1900. (h) Prior to 1890, the line was owned by a private company. Exclusive of lines (74 miles in 1903) in Foreign Possessions in India. (k) Exclusive of the Windsor Branch line (32 miles) maintained by the Government, but worked by a private company. (1) Inclusive of the length of lines in the Orange River Colony and Transvaal-excluded in prior years. (m) The particulars are for the Singapore-Johore Railway-the Province-Wellesley line being included with the railways of the Malay Protected States. TELEGRAPHS. POSSESSIONS. No 32.-TOTAL LENGTH of TELEGRAPH LINES OPEN in the various 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. (d) Exclusive of telephone lines, so far as ascertainable. (a) Including Government telephone lines. (b) Including 397 miles of cable between Singapore, Malacca, and Penang from 1889 to 1896, 1,205 miles from 1897 to 1900 and 1,203 miles in 1901 to 1903. (c) Excluding railway telegraph lines. (e) Including railway telegraph lines. |