Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 139
; quite a thousand miles have three or foursets of metals, and some shorter stretches of linehave six or seven. Upon the network of rails plythree-quarters of a million vehicles, of which some20,000 are locomotives, which each average about18,000 miles a year. In a year the British locomotives… … A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 109 and minerals. The total income of the railwaycompanies for twelve months may be set down at£120,000,000, of which over 40 per cent, comesfrom the passenger traffic. The goods departments of all the lines usuallycarry about 100,000,000 tons of general merchan-dise and…
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