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The Railway and Marine World - 1911-02 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1910 - Additional Information
The Railway and Marine World - 1911-02 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1910 - Additional Information
A news article was published in the February 1911 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 Dominion Atlantic Railway, the Halifax and South-Western Railway and the Liverpool and Milton 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, 1910
The table given in our last issue showed the financial results of the operations of steam railways for the year ended June 30, 1910. The following table gives the percentages and the principal statistical information compiled by the companies. The table published last issue and the one given below contain all the information given prior to 1909 in our compilation of these statistics but the columns have been rearranged so as to combine in the first table the financial and in the second the statistical information.
| Name of Railway | Proportion of total pas- senger service train revenue of total earnings |
Proportion of freight re- venue plus switching re- venue &c. to total earnings |
Revenue Train Mileage |
Mileage of Non-Rev- enue Trains |
Earnings 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 Gov't Rys.— Intercolonial Ry Prince Edward Island Ry |
33.98 52.88 |
64.96 46.82 |
6,781,677 328,018 |
250,750 34,455 |
1.40 .96 |
3,716,154 352,528 |
156,861,219 7,932,277 |
1.08 .52 |
3,984,054 103,100 |
1,106,777,165 3,503,868 |
1.47 .80 |
| Dominion Atlantic Ry |
47.47 | 52.20 | 556,342 | 8,056 | 1.50 | 370,843 | 16,317,092 | .81 | 342,257 | 17,112,850 | 1.75 |
| Halifax & South Western Ry | 50.82 | 48.66 | 341,926 | 9,510 | 1.20 | 177,644 | 7,227,160 | .67 | 213,850 | 10,701,093 | .78 |
| Liverpool & Milton Ry | 4.34 | 95.66 | 9,450 | . . . . | 1.12 | 9,240 | 36,960 | .04 | 40,503 | 202,000 | 1.07 |
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