Date: 1876
The cost of construction, exclusive of rolling stock, was, for the Adelaide and Port Railway, £17,433 per mile; for the Kapunda Railway, £11,191; aud for the extension to the Burra, £5,072.  The rolling stock on the Government lines consists of the following : — Twenty-nine locomotives, fifty-one passengei carriages, and six hundred and thirty-three goods waggons of all descriptions.  The estimated cost of the one hundred and forty-six miles approaching completion is £667,000 — the average cost being £4,600 per mile.