3rd Category.—Three Horses or three Mules, five or six Colts or Ponies, a Truck load[A] of small or large Cattle, sixty-one to one hundred Sucking Pigs.
Colts or Ponies exceeding 1 metre 30 (15 hands) in height are considered and charged as Horses.
Senders may load as many head of Cattle into the Trucks as they please, but the Railways are exonerated from all responsibility for injuries, accidents on the road and loss of Cattle.
The rates of Tariff No. 6, 3rd Category, are increased by 25 per cent. if a larger number of Cattle is loaded into a Truck[131] than the quantity shown hereunder.
| Oxen. | Cows. | Donkeys. | Heifers. | Pigs or Calves. | Sheep or Goats. | Sucking Pigs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Number. | Number. | Number. | Number. | Number. | Number. |
| 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 100 |
The loading and unloading of animals, whether carried by Goods or Passenger Trains, is effected at the expense and entire responsibility of Senders and Consignees respectively.
Horses and Cattle must be accompanied by a man in charge. One man per consignment or per truck is conveyed free in the horse box or cattle trucks, but if he travels in another carriage, he pays the ordinary Passenger fare.
Dogs, irrespective of size, accompanying Passengers are charged 3rd Class Passenger fare.
Small animals in cases, baskets or crates, are conveyed by ordinary Passenger Trains on the conditions of Tariff No. 2.
The Company do not deliver to “domicile,” and undertake no responsibility whatever in respect of these consignments.