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NOTE BY GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR,

7th OCTOBER, 1910.

INDIA OFFICE, DATED

To compensate an owning railway for the

use by a foreign railway of a short bit of expensive

line; the system adopted in India is to allow an addition to the actual mileage.

In the working agreement between the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway and the Western India Portuguese Railway the ghat section of 13 miles is calculated as 29 miles and the rates and fares are charged to the public accordingly.

In a contract between the Madras and Southern

Mahratta Railway and the South Indian Railway it is provided that certain through rates shall be divided in mileage proportion but that the mileage on the

Neilgherry section shall be reckoned as double the

actual distance.

Other special charges have been made from time to time to compensate for expensive works, such as

tunnels

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