NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS.
"The Railway Commissioners," says the ' Sydney Daily Telegraph, "have adopted j other means of reducing the expenditure owing to the decreased railway receipts ■ besides the deduction of one day's work 'per week in the Government; workshops. The train mileage, for example, is being I very considerably reduced. The report for . the quarter ending September showed that, 1 aB compared with the similar quarter of • 1891, there had been a reduction in train ' mileage of 213,193 miles, the figures for 1891 being 2,135,757 miles, and for ; 1892 1,922,564 miles. Thiß reduc--1 tion in train miles run is. principally 'in connection with goods trains. It has ! been found possible for bigger loads to be taken and thus save a double train, the ' newly imported powerful engines mate- ' rially-assisfcing '■ la this fespect. " Other ■ reductions iv expenditure have consisted ; in dispensing with officers where it could ibe done, in getting rid of extra men ! throughout the country as occasion offered, ! in the stopping of all regulation increases j to those above junior hands, in exercising I greater economy in the consumption of ■ stores, oils, lubricants, &c, and in various 1 other ways. At the same time it iB pointed out that there must be a certain standard j of strength to keep 1 tbe railway system ia i efficient order ."
NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7427, 23 November 1892, Page 4
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