SOME FACTS ABOUT RAILWAYS.
Do you know that the railways of Britain have enough track to stretch twice round the world if it were all placed end to end? The railway industry is also the largest undertaking in Britain not under direct public control. About 1174 million tickets were issued last year and 1650 million passenger journeys taken. There is seating accommodation for neariy three million people. There are over 24,000 locomotives, 51,000 passenger coaches, and 683,000 workers, with wages amounting to a hundred million pounds a year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 18
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