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SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE

PAST TWO YEARS.

Head No.

List of Heads

1946/47

1947/48

1.

Gauge

4' 8"

4' 81"

2.

Route Kilometerage-Operated

36

36

3.

Gross Railway Receipts...

4,431,700 6,431,252

4.

Railway Working Expenditure

$

2,226,389

3,302,465

5.

Net Operating Revenue

2,205,311

3,128,787

6.

Percentage of Railway Working Expendi-

ture to Gross Railway Receipts

50.23

51.35

7.

Capital Expenditure

18,962,523 21,298,081

8.

Percentage of Net Operating Revenue to

Capital Expenditure

12.11

14.69

9.

Gross Railway Receipts per route kilo-

metre operated

125,025

178,646

10.

Railway Working Expenditure per route

kilometre operated

61,242

91,735

11.

Passenger Receipts:

(a)

Local Traffic

536,949

969,850

(b) Through Traffic

2,784,946

4,326,842

(c) Total Traffic

3,321,895

5,296,692

12.

Percentage of Passenger Receipts to gross

Railway Receipts

74.95

82.36

13.

Number of Passenger Journeys:

(a) Local Traffic

596,292

967,574

(b) Through Traffic

1,258,258

1,908,416

(c) Total Traffic

1,854,550 2,875,990

14.

Goods Receipts:

(a) Local Traffic

(b) Through Traffic

€6

60,190

33,106

690,249

600,735

(c) Total Traffic

750,439

633,841

15.

Percentage of Goods Receipts to Gross

Railway Receipts

16.93

9.86

16.

Tons of Goods Hauled

191,496

122,219

17.

Revenue from other Sources:

46/47 47/48

Rentals

89,652 137,769

Haulage Receipts Incidentals

150,675 137,763 161,999

Profit on Central

Mech. Works

131,952 50,276

18.

Percentage of Revenue from Other Sources

to Gross Railway Receipts

359,367

500,719

8.10

7.78