THE RAILWAYS
INCREASE IN NET REVENUE
A substantial increase in the net revenue of the railways for the period from April 1 to December 7 of the present financial year is disclosed in returns gazetted yesterday. It amounted to £838,796, as compared with £340,691 for the corresponding period last year. Revenue for the period amounted to £7,316,279, an increase of £783,377, and expenditure totalled £6,477,483, or £285,272 more than for the previous year.
For the four-weekly period ended December 7 the net revenue was £126,922, as compared with £91,506 for the corresponding four weeks of 1939.
Revenue totalled £863,495 and expenditure £736,573, as compared with £780,143 and £688,637 respectively.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 5
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109THE RAILWAYS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 5
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