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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 4 (September 1, 1931.)

Rolling Stock on the Home Railways

Rolling Stock on the Home Railways.

Statistics are at times apt to be a trifle dull, but the recently published Ministry of Transport annual railway returns, packed tight with figures though they may be, are alike interesting and educative. According to these returns, the Home railways had some 20,419 miles of road open for traffic at December 31, 1929. Expressed in single track, the total mileage of running lines was 37,169 miles, and of sidings 15,514 miles. Steam, electric and petrol locomotives numbered 23,454, while passenger carriages numbered 51,243, with a seating capacity of 2,800,272. There were 229 Pullman cars in use at the close of last year. Goods and coal wagons numbered 700,093, with a total tonnage capacity of 7,690,405 tons.