Total liabilities (as per books of the company) $12,694,583.92 MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC. 828,300.00 911,722.70 410,332.72 Number of local passengers (including season) 3,863,556 Number of through passengers (to and from other 266,839 4,130,395 Local passenger mileage (local passengers carried * Reckoning twelve passengers per week for time of each season ticket. 1,727,466 Total number tons freight carried 2,509,131 Local freight mileage (tons local freight carried one mile) Through freight mileage (tons through freight carried one mile) * 29,276,668 165,836,414 Total freight mileage 195,113,082 Average number of persons employed DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. 2,327 Main line of road from Boston to Fitchburg 50.0 miles. 50.0 Branches owned by the company, viz. : Peterborough & Shirley (single track) Freight and ice in Boston (double track) Watertown Branch (single track) Lancaster, Sterling & Marlborough (single track) Worcester Division (single track) Ashburnham (single track) Total length of branches owned by company Total length of branches owned by company in New Hampshire. Double track on branches Total road belonging to this company Sidings and other tracks not above enumerated Same in New Hampshire . Total length of track, computed as single track Total length of steel rails in tracks, not including [Weights per yard, 60 and 72 lbs.] Roads and Branches belonging to other Companies operated by this Company under lease or contract. Vermont & Massachusetts R. R. Total length of above roads in Massachusetts Total miles of road operated by this company in New Hampshire Number of stations in New Hampshire on all roads Number of telegraph offices in same 56.0 miles. 2.8 66 37.0 66 95.8 66 95.8 229.37 46 9.37 operated by this company 3 1 Number of stations on all roads owned by this com pany 64 Same in New Hampshire 3 *Carried to and from other roads. 66 66 66 66 Maximum weight of locomotives in working order. Length of heaviest engine and tender, from center of forward truck-wheel of engine to center of rear wheel of tender Total length of heaviest engine and tender over all Killed. Injured. Killed. Injured. 1 5 10 66 10 19 Number of miles of road operated by this company BRIDGES. 2.59 miles. Number of trestle bridges of 25 feet length and upwards * Aggregate length of same for single track 1,034 ft. 66 66 66 66 660 double 66 over railroad Number of highway bridges 18 feet above track Number of highway bridges less than 18 feet above track Number of crossings at which gates or flagmen are maintained 13 904" 2,427 " and up 15 367 ft. double 66 triple 580 "* 66 45 " feet and 4 145 ft. double 66 25 " 66 188 24 11 4 20 68 Number of crossings at which electric signals are maintained * Old Colony, at Concord. Worcester, Nashua & Rochester, main line. Worcester, Nashua & Rochester (Peterborough & Old Colony, at Fitchburg. Number of railroad crossings under other railroads : Central Massachusetts (Weston). 7 |