This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...passenger and goods engines not being distinguished in official returns. Two or three paradoxes catch the eye in the above tables. One is the uniformity in average earnings of the rolling stock in all three kingdoms. Per locomotive it varies only in the passenger service from 4,280 in Scotland to 5,100 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...passenger and goods engines not being distinguished in official returns. Two or three paradoxes catch the eye in the above tables. One is the uniformity in average earnings of the rolling stock in all three kingdoms. Per locomotive it varies only in the passenger service from 4,280 in Scotland to 5,100 in Ireland, and on the goods side from 4,647 in Ireland to 5,800 in Scotland. Another paradox is that passenger coach earnings are greater in Ireland than in Scotland, and stranger still, they are almost as great as in England. The averages, it will be seen, are, England and Wales 770, Scotland 627, and Ireland 700. In the goods department more anomalies present themselves. Ireland shows the highest average per wagon in 1911, namely, 93, while England and Wales come second with 89, and Scotland brings up the rear with 50. Why the average earnings of a goods wagon should be so much lower in Scotland than in the other two kingdoms is a puzzling question. For an offset to it we find an exactly opposite anomaly in the average earnings of the Scottish locomotives. These are somewhat higher in Scotland than in England, and considerably higher than in Ireland (Ireland 4,647, England 5,538, and Scotland 5,800). Nor is this the only contradictory feature. When we try to test the accuracy of the average earnings per goods wagon by the average amount of work done, we find a fresh discrepancy. The latter, measured by the number of tons carried in 1911, was 480 tons in Scotland as compared with 745 tons in England, and only 297 tons in Ireland. A Scottish wagon, while doing two-thirds of the work of the English wagon, gets only about 60 per cent. of its earnings. Various other...
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