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Canada Yearbook - 1897

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332 STATISTICAL YEAR-BOOK.<br />

The following table is compiled from the Statesman's Year-Book<br />

and other sources, and gives the date of the opening of the first railway<br />

in the British Empire, and in all the principal countries in the world,<br />

the length of railway lines therein and the proportion of railway mileage<br />

to area:—<br />

RAILWAYS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.<br />

COUNTRIES.<br />

Date<br />

of<br />

Opening.<br />

Miles<br />

of<br />

Railway.<br />

Square<br />

Miles of<br />

Area to each<br />

Mile.<br />

<strong>Canada</strong><br />

Australasia—<br />

Queensland .... ....<br />

British Guiana .<br />

Sept. 17, 1825<br />

April 18, 1853<br />

July 23, 1836<br />

Sept. 25, 1855<br />

Dec. 1, 1863<br />

Sept. 14, 1854<br />

July 31, 1865<br />

April 16, 1856<br />

Feb. 19, 1871<br />

Jan. 21, 1864<br />

June 26, 1860<br />

Oct.<br />

7, i.S93<br />

1, 1865<br />

Nov. 21, 1845<br />

May 13, 1862<br />

13, 1867<br />

13, 1880<br />

Sept. 10, 1883<br />

1, 1864<br />

21,174<br />

19,407<br />

16,550<br />

2,615<br />

2,189<br />

3,120<br />

2,379<br />

1,888<br />

475<br />

1,184<br />

2,975<br />

402<br />

218<br />

297<br />

130<br />

105<br />

466<br />

54<br />

24<br />

23<br />

68<br />

5'S<br />

57<br />

221<br />

119<br />

48<br />

29<br />

239<br />

493<br />

55<br />

824<br />

90<br />

51<br />

94<br />

44<br />

7<br />

105<br />

32<br />

5,190<br />

RAILWAYS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.<br />

Europe—<br />

Austria-Hungary<br />

Belgium<br />

Holland and Luxembourg<br />

Italy<br />

Spain<br />

Turkey<br />

Sept.<br />

May<br />

Sept.<br />

Oct.<br />

Dec.<br />

Feb.<br />

Sept.<br />

Oct.<br />

July<br />

Oct.<br />

April<br />

Oct.<br />

Feb.<br />

June<br />

Oct.<br />

20, 1828<br />

5, 1835<br />

18, 1844<br />

1, 1828<br />

7, 1835<br />

18, 1869<br />

13, 1839<br />

3, 1839<br />

14, 1853<br />

9, 1854<br />

4, I860<br />

4, 1838<br />

30, 1848<br />

9, 1851<br />

15, 1844<br />

4, 1860<br />

18,317<br />

2,839<br />

1,407<br />

24,729<br />

28,237<br />

578<br />

1,924<br />

9,580<br />

1,073<br />

1,454<br />

1,831<br />

23,220<br />

336<br />

7,543<br />

6,058<br />

2,304<br />

1,130<br />

14<br />

4<br />

11<br />

8<br />

7<br />

43<br />

7<br />

12<br />

116<br />

27<br />

28<br />

90<br />

58<br />

26<br />

29<br />

7<br />

114

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