This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... examining these collected tickets, which on an average amount to 9000 per day, --in comparing them with the consecutive numbers as entered in the daily Returns received from the various stations, --and in checking the consecutive numbers themselves, five clerks are employed. The railway clearing-office thus receives- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... examining these collected tickets, which on an average amount to 9000 per day, --in comparing them with the consecutive numbers as entered in the daily Returns received from the various stations, --and in checking the consecutive numbers themselves, five clerks are employed. The railway clearing-office thus receives--1. Return from Euston booking-office, as also from all clearinghouse passenger stations, stating the number of passengers of each class booked for all clearing stations, the portions of lares paid bv each passenger and due to "foreign " companies. 2. From this account the London clearing-house prepares and forwards daily to each company a return, showing the portion of the fares received at Euston due to each respectively. The above returns are despatched on the evening of the second day. 3. The London clearing-house receives daily from every clearing station a similar return. 4. From these two sets of returns the debtor and creditor account of each company is made up, and kept separate in a book, from which a statement of balances is prepared and forwarded weekly to each company, showing the amount received on its account by the other companies, as also on account of the other companies by it, the balances due to it or by it, and the weekly balance due to or by the clearing-house on behalf of the companies. We may here observe that by the foregoing arrangements, without which the through passenger traffic could not possibly be practically carried out, 2,700,000 persons are annually saved the inconvenience of changing their carriage during their journey. 5. The same minute process is pursued with horses, carriages, and dogs, the tickets for which are numbered consecutively, and checked as for passengers. In 'this duty thirteen clerks a...
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