S 14
SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL RESULTS
OF THE PAST THREE YEARS, (Continued).
Head
No.
List of heads.
1937
1938
1939
35 Percentage of passenger receipts to gross Railway receipts
69.37
72.52
41.69
36 Passenger receipts per route mile operated $
41,869
30,730
36,806
37 Passenger receipts per paying train mile:-
(a) Local traffic $
3.29
4.76
4.06
(b) Through traffic $
10.45
6.10
16.17
(c) Total traffic $
5.80
4.76
38 Number of passenger journeys:-
(a) Local traffic
919,131
1,945,637
1,428,417
(b) Through traffic
1,702,387
791,347
(c) Total traffic
2,721,518
2,219,764
1,945,637
39 Passenger miles:-
(a) Local traffic
10,960,398
23,245,281
17,430,243
(b) Through traffic
37,285,202
48,245,600
17,377,069
(c) Total traffic
48,245,600
34,807,312
23,245,281
40 Average Passenger Receipts per passenger mile:-
(a) Local traffic $
0.028
0.028
0.02
(b) Through traffic $
0.017
0.019
0.019
(c) Total traffic $
0.023
0.028
41 Passenger miles per route mile operated
2,187,017
1,577,847
1,081,176
42 Passenger miles per passenger train mile:--
(a) Local traffic
120
167
146
(b) Through traffic
626
863
(c) Total traffic
319
249
167
43 Average length of journey. Miles
17.73
11.95
15.68
44 Number of coaching vehicles in stock
44
44
44
44 Coaching vehicles mileage
1,397,886
743,483
923,109
46 Carriage miles per day per coaching vehicle in stock
87.0
46.3
57.5
47 Goods Receipts:-
(a) Local traffic $
17,707
28,193
167,556
(b) Through traffic $
621,787
185,203
649,980
(c) Total traffic $
40,646