. Electric railway journal . the traflSe for which Croydon resi-dents alone are responsible. In this case the earn-ings of the Norbury line for the week averaged ;and the traffic, passengers per car-mile* For thesystem as a whole the summer figures were passengers per car-mile, as contrasted with ,and passengers per car-mile in January. Yet itwill be admitted that the winter figures alone showrespectable business! The exceptional position of the1^-mile Addiscombe line has previously been discussed. A banner day, demonstrating that somehow the con-ductors
. Electric railway journal . the traflSe for which Croydon resi-dents alone are responsible. In this case the earn-ings of the Norbury line for the week averaged ;and the traffic, passengers per car-mile* For thesystem as a whole the summer figures were passengers per car-mile, as contrasted with ,and passengers per car-mile in January. Yet itwill be admitted that the winter figures alone showrespectable business! The exceptional position of the1^-mile Addiscombe line has previously been discussed. A banner day, demonstrating that somehow the con-ductors do get the money for their employer underthe zone system, is afforded by the record of Whitsun-tide, May 20, 1918, when £1,002 were collected from118,754 passengers. As the total car-miles operatedthat day were 8,057, the number of passengers per car-mile amounted to and the earnings per car-mile,2s. , or 59 cents. For the year ended March 31, 1918, the average num- September 6, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 469. GEORGE STREET, ONE OF CROYDONS BIG SHOPPINGTHOROUGHFARES ( l^IMJllNG A HIEL ON BUSY HIGH STREET-TROLLEY OFFSET -NOTE THE ber of passengers per car-mile was ; the averagefare paid per passenger, , and the average returnsper car-mile, This was on the basis of average distance for a penny, miles for miles for 3d. These distances have since bee?idecreased an average of 30 per cent. Tickets, Including Un-American Transfers The ordinary rate tickets of the Croydon CorporationTramways are of the usual kind, bearing identificationnumbers, names of stages, etc. In order to save paper,the ordinary rate 3d. and 4d. tickets are available eitheron the Norbury line or on the line to Penge reached viathe South Metropolitan Tramways. Ordinary Id. and2d. through tickets are also issued jointly by the twoundertakings between stages on the sections of thePenge line owned by each one. Earnings from thesethrough tickets are dividsd
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