PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O. 882
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Description.
Receipts.
Tons.
Tobacco
132
Wood -
175
R.. 2,851 3,717
All other articles of merchandise
1,375
26,119
Vegetables
532
*4,814
Chunam and lime
439
5,438
16,730
268,090
The goods included in this statement are further classified as follows:-
Quantity. Becsipts.
Tons.
Rs.
General merchandise
14,329
250,824
Railway materials for construction
94
4,060
Coal for public and construction
167
1,525
Coal for revenue only
2,065
11,408
Revenue stores other than coal
75
298
Live stock receipts
489
Miscellaneous receipts
24
Total goods receipts
268,628
Goods train miles per annum in 1884 =
Goods receipts per goods train mile
86,705 miles. Rs. 3'09.
The average number of vehicles in a goods train, excluding brake vans, is six. From the foregoing figures I am enabled to deduce the following results :-
Average rates per ton per mile for goods of all classes, including
food grain and coal
Do.
do.
Average receipts for each ton of general merchandise carried
Rs. 0.44
for first, second, and third class
goods
"
*567 17.50
"1
Do.
do.
railway materials for construc-
tion carried
43.19
"
Do.
do.
coal for public and construction
carried
">
9.14
Do.
do.
coal for revenue carried
5-52
F
Do.
do.
revenue stores other than coal
carried
4.00
"
Do.
do.
goods of all description carried -
16.08
13
Number of goods train miles per mile of open railway per
miles 1,734
annum
-
Number of tons of goods carried per mile of open railway per
tons 385
annum
Rs. 5,373
75
The gross receipts from all sources were thus Rs. 435,024, equal per mile of railway open to Rs. 8,700 5 per annum, or per train mile to Rs. 3-53, while the number of train miles per mile of railway open during 1884 was 2,464 miles.
14. The goods rates upon the Ceylon railways during 1884 appear to have been the following
Main Line.
First class, Rs. 0.25 per ton per mile. Second class, Rs. 0-1667 per ton per mile. Third class, Rs. 0833 per ton per mile. Coffee, special, Rs. 0.133 per ton per mile.
Nánu-oya Railway.
First class, Rs. 0-50 per ton per mile. Second class, Rs. 0.40 per ton per mile. Third class, Rs. 0-25 per ton per
mile.
Special for coffee, through rate to Colombo, Rs. 0.175 per ton per mile. Special for cinchona, unpressed, through rate to Colombo, Rs. 0-265 per ton
per mile.*
The following is a statement of all goods carried on the Ceylon railways during
1984:-
First class goods
Arrack
Cocoanut
Cocoanut oil
Coffee
Tea
-
Cinchona
Rice
Salt
Tons.
3,106.00 Timber
1,297-00 | Plumbago
Tons.
·
2,765-25
·
3,563.05
2,106.85 Manure
3,927.75
1,849-95 Other third class goods
*
3,496.20
16,928-05 Railway materials
16,222,25
-
1,132-80 Breakwater materials 5,137-20 Waterworks do.
34,032.05
#
8,787.00
* 48,428-20
3,103-85
Total tona
·
-
187,359-85
31,477.40
The gross receipts from goods and live stock traffic per mile of
railway open
On examination of these figures, the smallness of the goods traffic and the extremely high rates charged, which are generally from six to ten times or even more than those ruling on the principal railways in India, will be apparent.
12. No information is given in the reports as to the average number of tons in a goods train, and as to the number of tons of goods carried one mile, such not being available; but by dividing the average receipts for each ton of goods carried by the average rates per mile, it would seem that each ton was on an average carried 36·55 miles, or about three-fourths of the total length of the railway, pointing clearly to the fact that, like the passenger traffic, the bulk of the goods traffic must be "through," that is to say, that it was carried from end to end of the line.
13. The miscellaneous receipts upon the Darjeeling-Himalayan railway during 1884 amounted to Rs. 6,298, equal to Rs. 0:05 per train mile upon the total train mileage of 123,205 miles of all trains, both goods and passengers.
Other second class goods
Of which 107,613 tons was up and 79,747 tons down traffic, the proportions thus being 1:35 tons up to 1 ton down. Excluding the breakwater and waterworks material, 104,439 tons were carried up, and 40,102 tons down, the proportions thus being 2:6 tons up and 1 ton down.
The total mileage expressed in the number of tons carried one mile was 9,773,026, of which 6,507,125 was up, and 3,265,901 down, the proportions thus being very nearly 2 to 1. Excluding the breakwater and waterworks material, this total becomes 9,274,438, of which 6,484,277 was up, and 2,790,161 down, the proportions thus being 2.32 up to 1 down.
15. Over the section of the Nánu-oya railway open for traffic in 1884, 17,728 tons of goods were carried, of which 14,176 tons were taken up and 3,552 tons down, the proportions being thus very nearly 4 to 1. This is equal to 1,356 tons carried over each mile of the mean mileage (viz., 13:07 miles) of that section worked throughout the year.
• Norm. From the lat January 1886, a new scale of rates for the carriage of goods came into effect, the present charges being as follows:-
Kalutara Branch,
First class, 164 cents per ton per mile. Second elam, 124 cents do. Third class, 8} centa
do.
Main Line (Colombo ta Kandy).
First class, 25 cents per ton per mile.
Second class, 17 centa
Third class, 84 conta
do.
do
Special for coffee, through rate to Colombo, 18*6 cents per ton per mile.
Special for cinchons, unpressed, through rate to Colombo, 0·4 cents per ton per mile.
Nanu-oya Balkway.
First clase, 31 cents per ten per mile.
Second olass, 35 cents
Third class, 16 cente
do, do.
Special for coffee, through rate to Colombo, 14-7 cents per ton per mile.
Special for cinchons, unpressed, through rate to Colombo, 21-9 cents per ton per mile.
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