Vans, Carts, Omnibuses, &c., can also be charged at the 1st Class rate of Tariff No. 3, with 50 per cent. added as for bulky goods, if the latter is more advantageous to the Sender.
Loading and unloading are included in the Passenger Train rate, but are performed at Sender’s risk. In the case of Goods Train, those services are performed at the risk and expense of the Owner.
Carriages conveyed in covered Trucks specially provided for such traffic are charged 25 per cent. over and above the Ordinary rates, both by Passenger and Goods Train.
Tariff No. 6 applies to Horses, Cattle and Dogs. Cattle is carried exclusively by Goods Train; Horses, Colts, Mules and Ponies are admitted for conveyance by Passenger Trains (Express Trains excepted), only in the two following cases, viz.:—
a. When the distance of the journey is 75 kilometres (46 miles) or more.
b. When the departure and arrival stations form the extreme points between which the Train runs.
The minimum charge for Horses, Colts, Mules or Ponies by Passenger Train is as for three heads.
The Goods Train rates are divided into three categories, viz.:—
1st Category.—One Horse or one Mule, one or two Colts, Ponies, Oxen, Cows or Donkeys, one to five Pigs or Calves, one to ten Sheep, one to thirty Sucking Pigs.
2nd Category.—Two Horses or two Mules, three or four Colts, Ponies, Oxen, Cows or Donkeys, six to ten Pigs or Calves, eleven to twenty Sheep, thirty-one to sixty Sucking Pigs.