LONDON TRANSPORT
OPERATIONS OF BOARD. INCREASE IN TRAFFIC. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, November 4. The London Passenger Transport Board, which is the direct owner and operator of London’s tube railways, omnibuses and tramways and is identified with the suburban traffic of four main railway groups by pooling arrangements, reports that in the year ended June 30 the number of passengers dealt with within the pooling scheme totalled 4,129,000,000, representing travel at the rate of 435 journeys per annum per head of the population served, which is estimated at 9,500,000 persons. In the previous year the number of journeys per head was 417. Of 3,582,000,000 carried on the Transport Board’s own system 59 per cent, travelled by omnibus and coach, 28 per cent, on tramcars, 12 per cent.,on the railways and 1 per cent, by trolleybus. The pooled passenger receipts for the year totalled £39,718,000 and the board’s own share was £28,823,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 22731, 6 November 1935, Page 7
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