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176 tHE RAILWAY INI?USTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA
·line··the.mileage fo'r the year is therefore to be measured
.by 36,156'09 mileS. On account of the new railway
.policy the mileage has been expanding every year .
. . The Indian railways are for the purposes of
...idministtationgenetally classified in three groups. To
·Class 1 belong all the broad gauges, 13,990 miles (87 p.c.)
·of the. metre gauges, and a substantial portion of the
narrow gauges. Class II takes in most of the remainder
·of the metre gauges and some of the ~arrow gauges. In
the third class fall mostly the narrow gauges but a part
also of the metre ·gauges. For 1928 the classification
'Would show the following results:
Class I
:35,586'81maes of .route
.. 11 2,953'49.. .. ..
.. III 1 ,17 i '28.. ;, ..
The first class constitutes thus, so far as mileage is
.concerned, the real backbone of the Indian railway system;
And this would appear also from the amount of
. capital invested. For the year 1926-27 we have the
following ngures. x:elating to the number of companies in
.each class as well as the total amounts' of capit~l
.at charge in each: 6
pass No. of companies Capital
First 15 Rs. 7,580,289,000
Second .. , . 16 .. 210,982,000
Third 37' .. 49,873,000
TOT~L 68 f Rs. 7,886,666,000
6 'At' 1931' the . figures would :be as follows: first, 14; second, 14;
.thi~~1 ~.5!,e ~e~;'t i.of '193~-31 (Calcutta 1932). vol. 1. pP.' 85-89.