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2. I do not expect at this date that you should state exactly what vehicles of each description you consider will hereafter be actually required, but shall feel obliged if you will inform me in general terms whether you consider the estimate sufficient, both as regards the prices which, where possible, I have obtained from the sanctioned estimates for this railway, and number of each class of vehicle necessary, and, if not, to acquaint me in what respects the annexed estimate should be revised.
3. The favour of a reply at your earliest convenience will greatly oblige.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. J. WARING.
REVISED ESTIMATE of ROLLING STOCK required for the Nanu-oya to Haputalé Railway.
Description of Work.
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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
RETURNS OF PRODUCE actually sent during the past three years from Haputalé, Badulla, and Madulsims, to Colombo vid Ratnapura, with Returns of the Rates of Cart hire paid for each Estate.
[Confidential]
Railway Rates based on the existing Colombo and Nánu-oya Extension Rates.
Down Traffic.
Coffee, per ton, Rs. 33-30.
Up Trafic.
Rice and 2nd class goods generally, per ton Manure and 3rd class
Rs. 41.90
24.35
Rate for each.
Total Amount.
Ba.
cts.
R..
cta.
40,000 0
160,000 0
9,616 83
88,467 32
Cart Rates.-- Down.
7,278 49
14,556 98
7,779 74
38,898 70
Per Busbel.
Muis: trüell zip.. Per Ton.
4,556 79
18,670 87
2,716 0
2,716 0
1,985
0
1,985 0
Haputalé
1,850 0
18,500 0
1,800 0 1,200 0 1,500
5,200
0
Badulla
4,800 0
average minimum
average minimum
cts, 53
-
Ra. 32.18
•
45
"
"
27. 0
52
91-18
"
19
45
"
10
27. 0
3,000 0
1,850 0
1,850 0
Madulaíma
average minimum
67
#
"
40.31
53
M
83. Q
Total.
803,644 87
Trafic.-Down Trafic.
Tone.
Haputalé
3,714
Badulla
2,246
Madulaima
745
6,705
Four locomotive engines similar to those in use upon Nánu-oys railway
Four 1st and 2nd class composite double bogie carriages
Two 3rd class double bogie carriages
Five 3rd class and brake van composite carriages
Three double bogis goods-brake vans
One horse box
One carriage truck, covered
Ten covered goods waggons upon four wheels
Four deep-sided goods waggons upon four wheels Four low-sided goods waggons upon four wheels Two timber swivel waggons upon four wheels One cattle waggon upon four wheels
The GENERAL MANAGER of the Ceylon Government Railway to the CHIEF RESIDENT ENGINEER, Railway Extension.
No. 97. Sia,
Colombo, May 8, 1885.
WITH reference to your letter of the 30th April, and to our previous conversation, the estimate you have forwarded may be considered a fair one, so far as can be judged at this time.
I &c. (Signed)
am,
W. T. PEARCE,
General Manager.
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Railway rate (ut supra) Rs. 33·30.
Receipts from Down Traffic, 6,705 × Rs. 33:30 = Rs. 223,276.
For year 1883 the Up Traffic Rice and 2nd class Manure and 3rd class
Up Trafic.
by rail over the Railway was as follows :—
-
• " 10,885
Tons 97,968, about ♬ of the whole traffic. *~*~*
to
"
Total-Tons 108,853
The actual returns of the years past show that the Up Trafic is about three times that of the Down.
APPENDIX D.
LIST of Documents and Drawings accompanying this Report.
[Not printed.]
Haputalé District, Down traffic
Do.
-
Up traffic = 6,705 × 3 =
Tons 6,705 20,115
Total of Up and Down traffic
Tons
26,820
A.
B.
of the Up traffic in 2nd class (see above) as the rate of Rs. 41.90 per tou.
of the Up traffic is 3rd class at the rate of Rs. 24.35 per ton.
A.
of 20,118 × Rs. 41,90 :
=
Rv. 758,557-Receipt for 2nd elter.
B.
of 20,115 × Ra. 24·35 =
48.968
3rd class.
#
Total for Up traffic
Rs. 807,525
F
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:
C.O. 882
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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