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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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figures as re-gards the average receipts actually obtained on Londonlines may be of interest. The average receipt on the District Railway per pas-senger carried is 1.49XI., and on the North London i-34d. to carry persons cheaply and rapidly distances of from 15to 30 miles between their homes and their places of business.At the present moment the railway companies with terminiin London are attempting to do it, but with very moderatesuccess, and with very grave inconvenience to the pas-sengers. The want of terminal facilities and the enormousprice of the land necessary to afford extra accommodation,the complexity of ownership and running powers held byvarious railway companies over each others lines, and thatgreat enemy of all railway traffic in London during thewinter months—London fog—have to be reckoned with,and all these points make the problem an exceedingly diffi-cult one to solve. Owing to the present poor rapid transitfacilities only very few business men can manage to live
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t Ry. Journal MAP OF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY AND RUNNING POWERS The average fares on the London Tramways system perpassenger carried work out at i.o8d.; on the omnibus lines,1.3d., and on the East London Railway, i.47d., from whichit will be seen that, as far as metropolitan travel is con-cerned in London, it is not safe to reckon on an averagefare of more than i;d. per passenger carried. A fewfigures taken from Mr. Dredges excellent article in a re-cent issue of Traction and Transmission which apply tosome main-line railways for the year 1900 are interestingfor the sake of comparison. Thus, on the London &Southwestern the average fare was 6.jd.; on the London,Brighton & South Coast, 7.13d.; on the Southeastern &Chatham, 74id., and on the Great Eastern, 4-59d. Theselines have been particularly chosen, as they handle a veryheavy suburban traffic. The Great Eastern is the onewhich has to lay itself open as much as any to catering forthe suburban resident, and over a la

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