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The train services have been maintained with punctuality, as will be seen from the following table :—

Average Late Arrival of Trains, Year ended 31st March, 1915.

LOCOMOTIVE. Mr. H. il. Jackson, Chief Mechanical Engineer, reports as follows:— The engines, rolling-stock, plant, machinery, and appliances have been maintained in j borough! \ efficient working-order, details of the work done being as follows: — Locomotive*. —On the Ist April, 1914, there were 534 engines in service, and on the 31st March, 1915, there were 557 engines. Two engines were sold and written off. One tank engine in hands of Stores Branch was taken into stock, and twenty-four new engines were added to stock. Of the new engine's added to stock sixteen were built in the Government railway workshops, and comprised ten heavy tank engines', Class Ww, and six Class X 94-ton tender engines, fourcylinder " balanced-compound " ; six Class An 72-ton tender engines, four-cylinder " balanced - compound, "g and two large simple superheated tender engines, Class Bb. were completed under the contracts with Messrs. A. and G Price (Limited), of Thames. In the Government railway workshops to date 141 engines have been built, and twenty-four old locomotives have been rebuilt to modern designs. Seven hundred and fifteen locomotives passed through the workshops during the year, the details being as follows : —

Included in above are eight engines for the Public Works Department. At the close of the year there were under construction in the railway workshops thirty engines, consisting of ten Class Ab simple superheated tender engines and twenty Class Ww heavy tank engines. Under the contract with Messrs. A. and G. Price (Limited), of Thames, there were eighteen Class Bb tender engines to complete, and an order was placed with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in America for ten Class Aa simple superheated tender engines, so that at the close of the year there were altogether in hand fifty-eight locomotive engines. The new locomotives added, together with boiler-renewals, increased the total tractive power by 508,7631b., or equal to 733 per cent. The new engines being built and the boilers under construction will, when completed, still further materially increase the tractive power.

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Period ending g «; a ' s ! s » ! s j ■ a" I = ,, HJ => * sT j j] Wxpress and Mail Trains. Year ending 31st March, 112 i 1-52 ; 2-37 ; 0-65 , 0-69 0-45 0-24 0-80 0-79 3-76 1-61 2-15 11-95 1-40 1915 Year ending 31st March, | 2-48 I 2-03 j 2-07 ! 1-80 j 0-62 . 0-85 0-29 i 0-51 | 1-85 2-82 j 1-17 1-80 0-92 1-40 1914 2-15 1-80 Long-distance Mixed Trains. Year ending 31st March, 2-40 335 2-51 1-21 1-23 1-86 0-77 1-28 145 2:55 1-99 3-30 18-85 2-09 1915 i Yoar ending 31st Maroh, 3-70 3-24 2-44 i 1-25 1-02 092 I 1-06 j 1-97 j 2-54 3-10 2-44 3-15 2-28 1914 3-30 3-15 Suburban Trains. Year ending 81st March, 0-52 0-63 i 0-84 0-27 I 0-13 0-15 | 0-16 0-38 0-21 0-48 0-30 0-34 i 0-86 I 0-86 1915 Year ending 31st March, 0-59 0-87 I 0-61 0-44 0'29 0-15 i 0-23 0-39 0-59 062 0'47 0'51 0-45 0-48 1914

Number and Type. Particulars. *;? u , r - Pairliea. cylinder "Balanced-i Tender Tank Fell compound"] Engines, i Engines, j Engines. Tender Single. ; Double. Engines. Total. Number passed through shops Built new Re-erected Thoroughly overhauled Heavy repairs Light repairs Painted ... Paint touched up ... 98 213 376 6 20 2 6 ... 10 6 1 12 10 47 41 ... 3 27 6J 117 6 12 2 49 104 196 ... 5 14 52 48 2 5 31 64 56 2 2 715 1.6 L9 101 225 354 121 155 L ! _J