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now is, to be dealt with in a much more satisfactory man- 

 ner than formerly, and the many improvements introduced 

 by the present and former Chief Mechanical Engineers in 

 design, have brought the locomotives of this State to a 

 degree of perfection that can only be fully realised when 

 one of the express engines of 1891, good as it was and is, 

 is seen beside the new NN engiues built at the Commiss- 

 ioners' Workshops. 



Tramways. 

 In 1891 there was a total length of 42^ miles of street 

 tramways in use, made up of the following sections: — 

 City and Suburban ... 33^ miles, steam traction. 

 North Sydney ... H ,, cable „ 



Newcastle 1\ ,, steam ,, 



the cost of construction and- equipment being £857,455, 

 £74,343 and £72,414 respectively, making a total of 

 £1,004,212. 



Until the construction of the Ocean Street Cable Tram- 

 way in 1894, only small additions had been made to the 

 mileage, and it was not until after electricity was first 

 used as the motive power at the end of 1899, on the line 

 from Circular Quay to Pyrmont, that the large expansion 

 of the tramway system commenced, there being now 221 

 miles open for traffic in and about Sydney, Newcastle, and 

 Broken Hill. Table III shows how this is distributed, and 



Table III. — Tramways in 1916. 



City and Suburban, Electric... 

 North Sydney, Electric 

 Ashfield to Mortlake, Electiic 

 Arncliffe to Bexley, Steam ... 

 Kogarah to Sans Souci, Steam 

 Parramatta to Castle Hill, Steam 

 Manly to Spit ... | -,. , . 

 Manly to Narrabeen I Electrlc 

 Sutherland to Cronulla, Steam 

 Rockdale to Brighton, Steam 

 Newcastle and Suburban. Steam 

 East to West Maitland, Steam 

 Broken Hill, Steam 



Miles. 



Chains. 



Cost. 



Ill 



17 



.£6,332,434 



19 



31 



659,501 



8 



38 



200,816 



2 



50 



21,752 



5 



45 



27,814 



6 



55 



38,446 



10 



58 



320,459 



7 



32 



49,696 



1 



20 



13,491 



32 



69 



374,789 



4 



47 



38,941 



10 



4 



88,284 



