'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1860-61' [‎33v] (62/164)

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PUBLIC WORKS RAILWAY.
bunders, and to all ground that may afterwards be reclaimed to the
for all produce being brought to the Fort walls, as communication between the
Railway and the harbour on one side, and the Native own on t ic other, can
be maintained at other points as well as on the Esplanade.
Lord Elphinstone’s Government offered them ground on the Flats and at
Tank Bunder but the Company refused to accept either. Negotiations are now
in progress for reclaiming ground at Warree Bunder, a site convenient to the
Shipping, the Native Town, and the Locomotive Depot, and it is expected a
satisfactory arrangement will at length be concluded.
BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA RAILWAY.
The progress of the B. B. & Central Indian Railway for the year under notice
has been great, as compared with that of former years. It would have been
oreater, but for the stoppage of works, ordered by the Government of India
in October last, which caused a waste of money, no less than of time. The restric
tion on expenditure was removed in December, but its ill effects survived.
The arrangements for workmen on the suspended works had been hopelessly
disordered for the season ; contracts had been compromised or abandoned,
and confidence had been greatly shaken ; much lost ground therefore had to
be recovered.
The year can show an increase of 70 miles to the open line, and the com
pletion of the Taptee Viaduct. By the middle of June, an Engine will have
crossed the Nurbudda, and another 30 miles will probably he opened.
The progress of the works will be described in the geographical order
adopted in previous reports, though this involves the anomalies of commencing
with the part not begun, and that Avill be the last finished, viz. the Bombay
Terminus, and introducing into the middle of the report the part that is
finished and open for traffic.
The Chief Engineer is now preparing plans for the Terminus, both
Passenger and Goods, their sites as well as designs, and considering arrange
ments for providing for the large cotton traffic which may be expected on this
line, and the question of forming a junction near Bombay with the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway, for the mutual convenience of both Companies.
Proceeding northward from Bombay, some progress is apparent between
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