Scribner's magazine . ^ye cannot measure this accurately be-cause we do not know how far the aver-age ton of freight or the average pas-senger was carried in England, and ofcourse the amount of work includes notonly the number of passengers or oftons but the distance they are may compare, however, the milesrun by trains. In England, in total movement was 22^ trains each trains each way every day. This is al^retty fair general measure of the pub-lic service; the Englishmen had threetimes as many trains as we had. Not\\-ithstanding the much smallerrailroad mileage in the Unit
Scribner's magazine . ^ye cannot measure this accurately be-cause we do not know how far the aver-age ton of freight or the average pas-senger was carried in England, and ofcourse the amount of work includes notonly the number of passengers or oftons but the distance they are may compare, however, the milesrun by trains. In England, in total movement was 22^ trains each trains each way every day. This is al^retty fair general measure of the pub-lic service; the Englishmen had threetimes as many trains as we had. Not\\-ithstanding the much smallerrailroad mileage in the United King-dom than in the United States, therewere many more passengers carried. In1892 the railroads of the United King-dom carried over 864,000,000 passen-gers exclusive of holders of season tick-ets ( commuters in the United States).There were 1,612,510 holders of seasontickets, and, allowing each one of theseto have made but 300 journeys a year,they would have added over 480,000,-000 passenger journeys, making, say,. Porters with Lamp-truck, for Incoming Train. way every day over every mile of rail- 1,344,000,000 passengers carried in theroad in the kingdom. In the United year. No one should quote this as anStates the total movement equalled actual figure—it is a mere guess. The
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