RAIL TRAFFIC

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 280, 8 September 1936, Page 6

RAIL TRAFFIC

IN ASHBURTON COUNTY.

GENERAL GOODS AND LIVE STOCK. SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. Goods sent out of Ashburton by rail in the railway year ended on March 91 last exceeded the imports by 35,003 tons, according to the Railways Statement which has just been released. The outward traffic consisted of 78,452 tons while the inward totalled 45,449 tons. An analysis of the figures shows:

As far as live stock is concerned the number of sheep and. P'S S , cattle and calves sent out of the County was much greater than the number brought in, as the following table shows: — Outward Inward

The total values of goods forwarded, from the several stations were:— £ Rakaia ... 18,922 Methven ... ... ••• 8,226 Chertsey 15,218 Ashburton 27,797 Tinwald ... ... ••• 10,312 Mt. Somers 4,261 Hinds ... ... ••• 7,238 No fewer than 15,056 rail journeys were made from Rakaia, 466 of these being first-class and 14,590 secondclass. At Ashburton the total was 61,855 (2548 first and 59,307 second'. Other County station figures were: Methven 6004 (19 first, 5985 second), Chertsey 4213 (2 first, 4211 second), Tinwald 3626 (77 first, 3549 second), Mount Somers 523 (all second-class), H'inds 5538 (34 first, 5504 second).

Outward Inward. Rakaia ... 19,617 4133 Metkven ... 4,751 7240 Chertsey ... ... 12,444 1739 Ashburton .. 20.135 25,131 Tinwald ... 8,710 2670 Mount Somers ... 6,627 3069 Hinds ... 6,168 3500

cattle sheep cattle sheep Rakaia 647 137,360 206 23,162 Methven 840 59,893 260 33,607 Chertseyt 1585 64,382 463 81,278 Ashburton *822 4,469 993 56,894 Timvald 996 100,096 472 85,307 Mt. Somers 147 18,039 375 3,430 Hinds 429 60,784 109 11,895