238 Chronicles of Science. | April, 
The second section of a line of railway from Moscow to the 
south has been opened for traffic. The first section from Moscow 
to Serpoukhoff, 593 miles, was opened for traffic in 1866, and the 
section now opened extends from Serpoukhoff to Toula, 59% miles ; 
traffic is thus now conducted over a distance of 1174 miles. The 
third section, between Toula and Orel, and the fourth, from Orel to 
Koursk, will be opened to the public next summer. The Ryason- 
Morschausk line, a portion of the Moscow- Volga line, has also been 
recently opened; it is 150 miles long, and has only taken a year 
and three months to construct. The Koslow-Woronesh Railway, a 
link in the long line to be laid down between Moscow and the 
Sea of Asof, is probably by this time completed. The Moscow- 
Odessa line is progressing so fast that it will most likely be com- 
pleted this year; and the works between. Poti and Tiflis, a line 
which, after its extension to the Caspian harbour of Baku, will 
monopolize a considerable portion of the Persian trade, liave just 
been begun. 
The Ciudad Real and Badajoz Railway Company completed its 
branch line to the Belmez coal-basin in January last. This result 
is expected to have an important influence upon the original under- 
takings, as it will not only lead to the development of a coal traffic, 
but will also assist m the reduction of working expenses. 
The railway tunnel at Constantia, in Algeria, is finished. It is 
nearly 3,000 feet long. 
The first half of the experimental elevated railroad in Greenwich 
street, New York, is fast approaching completion. The Pacific 
Railroad is now stated to have been carried 520 miles beyond 
Omaha; more than 4,000 men are employed on the earthworks 
and the construction of rolling stock. An unbroken railway com- 
munication is now open from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky 
Mountains, a distance of more than 2,000 miles. An additional 
railway section hag just been opened for traffic in Chili. 
The doubling of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway between 
Egutpoara and Nassick was expected to be finished by the end of 
last year. Plans and sections of the Neemuch and Delhi extension 
of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, from Saugor to 
Nusseerabad, have been completed, as has also the survey to Jeypore, 
a section of which is about to be started, and another party is work- 
ing towards Agra. The extension of the same line to the river 
Saburmuttee, at Ahmedabad, a distance of 24 miles, will shortly be 
commenced. The railway bridge over this river, which was designed 
by Mr. A. W. Forde, formerly Chief Engineer of the Bombay and 
Baroda Railway, has been let to that gentleman for 44 lacs of 
rupees. The opening of the Chittravutty Bridge on 8th January 
last, together with the completion of the Madras and Bombay 
Railway to Tadpatri, will have the effect of opening up the 
