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other line in India pays, and as a suitable corollary, it is
perhaps the most comfortable and the best found line in
the country. The remarkable growth of the Indian coal
trade has lately led to a large increase of rolling stock on
this line and to the doubling of its carrying capacity.
Changing our point of departure to Bombay we find

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3

100 MILES

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spreading abroad over India two important railway routes
to the north, centring on Delhi ; two to the east, with Calcutta
 as the terminal objective ; and two to the south-east,
reaching to the Coromandel coast. There is no direct line
northwards to Peshawur (which is not far removed from
the meridian of Bombay), because no line yet has been