RAILWAY STATISTICS FOR 1925 (GREAT BRITAIN).
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MITE railway returns for the year 1 1925 have just been issued in summary form by the Minister of Transport, Dad they refer to all railways in Great Britain with the exception of about 100 miles of narrow-gauge line. Aotually, they include the figures fot all constituent and subsidiary companies of the four amalgamated companies.
The total capital expenditure on all railways to the end of the year is 11,198,600,000. The net income for all railways has been £51,700,000, of which about £24,000 is derived from passenger road vehicles. This figure of net revenue is 1590,000 less than in the year 1924, and it includes £2,600,000 appropriated from reserves. The actual Amount earned for transport services rendered, also from hotels and cater
ing departments was £36,700,000 which, again, is £1,300,000 less than in 1924.
The gross receipts from passenger Ivvices was £94,000,000, which is £1,111,000 less than in the previous year.
The gross receipts from goods train service was £103,700,000, as compared with £106,402,136 in the previotts year.
With miscellaneous receipts the total gross receipts are £199,600,000, which is nearly £3,000,030 lees than in the previous year.'
The total expenditure was i165,000,000 as compared with /166;882,592 in the previons year, so that the total traffic expenditure was 83.3 per cent, of the total traffic receipts.
There are 52,231 miles of railway routes of single track and including sidings, the actual length of railroad being 20,392 miles—a surprising figure for the area concerned.
The rolling stock iucludes.303 passenger motor vehicles and 2,282 parcels and goods motors. The Great Western Railway own the largest number of passenger motors' viz., 206, but the London, Midland and Scottish own the greatest number of goods motors-1,401.
The total quantity of traffic carried, taking only originating tonnage, was 59,712,000 tons of general merchandise, 193,623,000 tons of coal, coke and patent fuel, and 62,513,000 tons of other minerals. The average receipt for goods train traffic was 16s. 9d. for general merchandise per ton, 3s. 8d. for coal, coke, etc.„ 5s. id. for other, minerals, whilst the average for all descriptions
of traffic was Os. 5d. per ton. .