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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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POSTSCRIPT.

The following figures relating to the train mileage and details of coaching traffic on the Ceylon railways for 1884, furnished by the general manager of the railway, having reached me too late to be inserted in their proper places in the above memorandum, they are now forwarded; for, as rendering the comparison and analysis therein attempted more complete, they may be of interest :-

Sections.

Colombo to Kandy

Pérádeniya to Nawalapitiya

Nawalapitiya to Tulawakélé

Kandy to Mátalé -

Colombo to Kalutara

Total

DETAILS of Train Mileage for 1884.

Passenger

Mixed

Goods

Total

train miles.

train miles.

train miles.

train miles.

61,182

68,048

181,293

310,523

63,179

12,687

75,866

28,532

4,003

32,535

38,478

38,478

152,796

152,796

213,078

198,237

197,983

610,198

TABLE showing Number of Passengers carried, Receipts from each Class. Average payment by each Passenger per mile, and the average distance cach Passenger was carried.

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3. The total mileage of passengers expressed in the number of passengers carried one mile is :-

First class passengers

Second class

Third class

do. do.

Total passenger miles

-

-

1,117,012 1,395,681

·

26,638,424

29,151,117

giving an average distance travelled by each of the 2,111,334 passengers conveyed of 13.80 miles. Comparing these figures with the similar ones relating to the Darjeeling railway, as given in Table No. I., it will be noted that, although upon the Ceylon railwaye generally, which in 1884 were three times the length of the Darjeeling line, nearly 68 times as many passengers were conveyed as upon the latter line, yet the total mileage travelled by these passengers was only 29 times that travelled by the passengers on the Darjeeling railway, confirming most strongly the observations made in paragraph 10 of the memorandum as to the generally very short distances travelled by passengers on the Ceylon railways.

F. J. WARING,

Chief Resident Engineer.

Railway Extension Office, Dimbula, Kotagala, 21st April 1886.

(Signed)

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First class

Second clas Third class

Total

Number

of passengers carried.

Receipts from passengers carried.

Average payment by each passenger per mile.

Average distance each passenger was

carried.

Rs.

Cents.

Miles.

49,491 121,681 1,910,162

76,352 69,800 665,873

71 5,

22.57

11:47

13.73

2,111,334

812,025

The total coaching receipts being Rs. 916,878, while the passenger train miles were 213,978, the coaching receipts per passenger train mile were Rs. 4.2849.

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2. On analysing the figures given in the second table in the column headed "Average payment by each passenger per mile," I make some slight differences from those given by the general manager. By my calculations these figures are as follows :—

First class average payment per mile

Second class

Third class

do. do.

For passengers of all classes the average payment per mile is

-

Rs. 0.0684

99

0'05001

"

0.02499 0.02786

This latter sum is, it will be observed, less than one-fourth of Rs. 1155, the average sum received on the Darjeeling Railway for carrying one passenger one mile. (Sce Table IV., progressive number 30.) The figures for first, second, and third class passengers just given are, it will be noted, lower than the first, second, and third This is probably class fares per mile on the railway generally, as given in Table No. I.

due to the issue of return tickets at generally one-and-a-half single fares, and to the low scale of charges on the Seacoast line, where, taking the fares from Kalutara South to the Fort Station (26 miles) as a basis for calculation, they are :-*

First class Second class Third class

mile.

Rs. 0.0673

per

31

0.0431 do.

0.0204 do.

"

Again, the general manager of the railway, by crediting the passenger train mileage run with the whole of the coaching receipts, obtains the very favourable result of Rs. 4.28 19 per passenger train mile: bnt as some of the coaching receipts must have been derived from the mixed trains, the mileage of which is given at 198,237 miles, this would not appear to be the propave been only credited with the receipts froin purely way of looking at the question, and the passenger train mileage should, passenger trains.

think,

No. 6.

The RIGHT HON. THE EARL GRANVILLE, K.G., to GOVERNOR THE HON. SIR A. H. GORDON, G.C.M.G. No. 207.

SIR,

Downing Street, August 3, 1886. WITH reference to my predecessor's Despatch, No. 153, of 28th October 1885,* relating to proposed railway extension in Uva, I have the honour to forward for your consideration the enclosed summary of the speeches made by members of a deputation which waited upon me on the 1st of June last, to urge the adoption of a narrow gauge line for the district in question, and also a copy of a letter from Mr. Ramanathan on the subject, enclosing copy of a memorial from the Ceylon Agricultural Association, dated 27th February last.

I have not sent an act of the representations made by this deputation sooner, because I have been expecting despatches from you dealing with the question.

I have now received your despatches of the numbers and dates in the margint forwarding the report of the commission and stating your views on the subject of the proposed railway extension.

These despatches will receive very careful consideration, and in due course my successor will address you on the whole subject.

Sir A. Gordon.

Enclosure 1 in No. 6.

REPORT OF DEPUTATION.

(Signed)

I have, &c.

GRANVILLE.

On the 1st of June 1886 a deputation of the following gentlemen waited on Lord Granville to urge on him the expediency of an immediate inquiry as to the suitability of the Darjeeling railroad system to the uphill country of Ceylon, and to the extension into Uvah.

Sir William Gregory introduced the deputation, consisting of Mr. J. White, late Member of Legislative Council, representing Messrs. Baring Brothers; Mr. Bois, representing Messrs. Murray Robertson; Mr. T. Brown, Chairman of Uvah Company: Major Murray, owner of estates in Uvah; the Hon. Mr. Rama Nathan, and Mr. Dornbust.

Lord Granville, being indisposed, was represented by the Under Secretary for the Colonies, Sir Robert Herbert, and Mr. Meade.

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↑ Nos. 25, 268, 259, 28rd June (Nos. 3, 4, and 5).

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