RAILWAY RETURNS
LARGE REVENUE INCREASE. AT LOCAL STATION. Railway returns are considered one of the best economic barometers for any district, and if this is so the fact that the revenue received at the local station for the four-weekly period ending 14th October as compared with the corresponding period of last year has increased by £752 should be noted as a portent of better things. The increase has been an all-round one, being especially large as regains the stock carried, as well as general goods, as the following figures of the outgoing traffic will show: — 1933 1932 Inc. Passengers . . 2864 Cattle & Calves 1438 654 784 Sheep & Pigs 1144 712 432 Timber (tons) 2233 2029 204 Other goods (tons) —
Merchandise, Lime, etc. 3577 2575 1002 Passenger revenue •• £504 £449 £55 Goods revenue £4258 £3541 £717 As a result of the increased tonnage from and passing through the station the trains have had to be banked fairly frequently to cope with it. A large amount of the through traffic is destined for the new Stratford line.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 5
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174RAILWAY RETURNS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 5
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