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The Railway and Marine World - 1912-04 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1911 - Additional Information
The Railway and Marine World - 1912-04 - Steam Railway Statistics For Year Ended June 30, 1911 - Additional Information
A news article was published in the April 1912 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, 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, 1911.
The table given in our last issue showed the financial results of the operations of steam railways for the year ended June 30, 1911. 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 1910 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 to 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 Government Railways Intercolonial Ry Prince Edward Island Ry |
33.54 54.66 |
64.65 42.16 |
7,090,578 329,197 |
242,540 12,039 |
1.41 1.04 |
3,286,942 361,458 |
166,122,542 8,114,430 |
1.10 .57 |
4,254,803 109,345 |
1,112,203,132 3,846,066 |
.57 3.75 |
| Dominion Atlantic |
53.16 | 46.27 | 537,009 | 5,012 | 1.37 | 401,028 | 17,645,232 | .77 | 282,415 | 12,708,675 | 2.67 |
| Halifax & South Western | 50.39 | 49.00 | 357,413 | 9,543 | 1.21 | 202,466 | 7,011,604 | .66 | 236,695 | 11,996,660 | 1.74 |
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