RAILWAY STATISTICS.
(Pra United IV.r.ss .VssncimoN.) BLENHEIM, July 20. Tho following 'railway statistics were made' public by the Hon. A. Pitt, Acting-Minister of Railways, at Ihe opening of the Blenheim Railway Station yesterday:— 1595. 1906. Miles open 1,993 2,406 Capital cost ... £15 352.613 £22,198.972 Train mileage ... 3.221620 6.413,573 Passenger numbers 3.905.578 8.826.382 Catlto carried ... 40.890 ' 119,311 Sheep 1,519,921 3,348.605 Pigs 43.?f10 92.702 Grain (tons) SSS 550 772,258 Minerals (tons) ~. 857.917 1,938.548 Gross tonnage ... 2,048,391 4.241,422 Revenue £1,150.851 £2,349,304
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13651, 21 July 1906, Page 10
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