THE WORLD'S RAILWAYS.
The Victorian Railway Department has supplied tho Mcdboume papers with the following instructive return, showing tho mileage, gauges, and dates of railways open for traffic in various countries;
‘ln each of these countries there are a few lines (light) of various other smaller gauges, but the mileage is relatively negligible!
Countries. Gauge. Ft. In. [ Miles, Date. England and Wales* 4. Si 13,187 inrn Scotland ■l.St 3,183 1900 Ireland 5.3, 3 0,3.0 3,183 UlnO France' 4.8.1 23 324 IS 8 Ceinniny* 4.8i 32,Sii7ilS99 Austria* 4,81 111,8221897 11 unpary 4 84 1(1,1. >7 1898 Huiii'C 5. ft 28,244 189!) Denmark 4.81 and metre 1.5081898 Italy' ... 4.8< and metre 9.302 1897 Spain' 5.G 8,020 1899 Sweden* 4,Si 0,330 1807 Norway* <1.8.1, a.54 1,312; 1898 Switzerland' 4.8.J 2,3311898 Turkey (Europe) ... Turkey (Asia)* 4.81 1,240 1898 4 8) 1,713 1898 Finland 5.0 1,011 1899 Kouinania 4 81 1,8 5 1899 1’nrtugal* 5.1! 1,401 1898 (Ireei'i! Metre 501 isos Bulgaria 4.81 s:;,’ 1890 C.S. America’ 4.81 180,870 IMIS Canai I a 4 S.l 17.338 181(9 Brazil Metres (3.31), 5,3 8,7 [ s 1.1,1. Chili 6.ti, 4.8.1, 3.0 ;1 lift. 1898 1 rngnav 4.81 1,080 1808 Venezuela 3.fi, 2.0 329 1809 New South Wales* 4.81 2,843 1001 Victoria* 5.3 3.238! T01 New Zealand . 3.H 2,212 19,11 (Queensland 3.(1 2,8011190). South Australia 5.3, 3.6 1,73' 1901 Western Australia... 3.6 1,333 1901 Tasmania 3.6 ■139 1901 23,174|l809 India it Depend’ncioB 5.6, metre, 2.6 Cape Colony Transvaal 3 6 1,9901189!) 3.0 I'llJOllS'.iy Orange Kiver Colony .3.6 400 189.1 Natal 3.6 505 1899 China 4.81 404 189!) Congo 2.51 257 1899 Mesico 4.8.1, 3.0 8,0(0 : 899 Holland 4.81 1,722 1898 Peru 4.81. 3.0 911 1897 Colombia 30, .3 0,5.0 389 1898 Egypt 4.81, 3.6, 2.51 1,238 1.899 Argentine Republic 5.0, and metre 9,883 1898 Algiers 4,81, 2.5 2,140 1899 Belgium (State) 4.8j 1898 Light private lines Metre l.MIO 1898 Japan 3.6 3,314 1898
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Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 7
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