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The Railway and Marine World - 1909-05 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1908 - Additional Information
The Railway and Marine World - 1909-05 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1908 - Additional Information
A news article was published in the May 1909 issue of The Railway and Marine World trade magazine regarding some additional statistics for steam railways in Canada. The list of railways was lengthy, so only information pertaining to the Intercolonial, the Prince Edward Island Railway, the DAR, and the Halifax and South-Western Railway is shown here. The scan of the article appears below, while the article text is shown here for search purposes:
STEAM RAILWAY STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908.
The table given in our last issue showed the financial results of the operations of steam railways for the year ended June 30, 1908. The following table gives the percentages and the principal statistical information compiled by the companies. The table published last month and the one given below contain all the information given in our compilation of these statistics published last year, but the columns have been arranged so as to combine in the first table the financial and in the second the statistical information.
| Name of Railway | Proportion of Earnings to Working Expenses |
Revenue Train Mileage |
Mileage of Non-Rev- enue Trains |
Earnings per Train Mile |
Operating Expenses per Train Mile |
Passengers Carried |
Passengers Carried one Mile |
Passenger Earnings per Train Mile |
Tons of Freight Carried |
Tons of Freight Carried One Mile |
Freight Earnings per Train Mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Government Rys. Intercolonial Prince Edward Island |
104 130 |
7,217,272 330,107 |
441,123 27,693 |
1.23 .94 |
1.29 1.23 |
2,866,408 323,935 |
142,721,881 7,338,420 |
.93 .49 |
4,008,541 98,590 |
1,005,670,287 3,651,303 |
1.29 .43 |
| Dominion Atlantic |
64 | 555,284 | 8,215 | 1.66 | .91 | 355,662 | 15,026,719 | .80 | 355,970 | 15,662,680 | 1.66 |
| Halifax & Southwestern | 99 | 366,317 | 15,185 | 1.05 | 1.05 | 198,722 | 7,913,705 | .62 | 182,061 | 8,815,189 | .70 |
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