Railway Traffic.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19254, 8 November 1934, Page 3

Railway Traffic.

PASSENGER JOURNEYS • INCREASE. DECREASE IN GOODS CARRIED. Railway receipts for the period ending September 15, 1934, exceeded working expenditure by £BBB9 —a satisfactory result for this period of the year, states the current issue of the Monthly Abstract of Statistics. The number of passenger journeys was 2,211,047, as compared with 1,189,084 during the previous four-weekly period. This Very considerable increase in passenger traffic —approximately 86 per cent. —is no doubt largely accounted for by the fact that school holidays fell within the September period. The volume of goods traffic, as indicated by the net ton-miles run, shows a decrease of 7 per cent, as compared with the previous period. Nevertheless, the ton milage in tho September period was higher than in the corresponding periods of 1931, 1932 and 1933; the cause of the decrease since August being the fact that August was, for this time of the year, a particularly busy month in respect of goods traffic. The tonnage of timber carried on the railways continues to show improvement ; the tonnage in the September period—27,Bsl tons—representing an increase of G per cent, over the figure for the previous fourweekly period and of 13 per cent. ,on that for September of last year.