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
roads going over and beyond this road)
Total number of passengers carried.

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
Double track on main line

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
Same in New Hampshire

Total length of steel rails in tracks, not including
steel-top rails

[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.
Average
Maximum weight of tenders full of fuel and water.

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
not furnished with telegraph facilities:
From Ashburnham Junction to Ashburnham
Charges for the transportation of company's supplies
are not included in earnings as reported for this
road.

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
triple

66

over railroad
under 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
triple

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 &
Shirley).

Old Colony, at Fitchburg.

Number of railroad crossings under other railroads :
Boston & Lowell.

Central Massachusetts (Weston).

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