Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris (1901-02):
Growth of Railway Mileage Since 1830
| YEAR | United States |
Great Britain and Ireland |
France | Germany | Russia | The world |
| 1830 | 23 | 57 | 24 | ........ | ........ | 121 |
| 1840 | 2,818 | 838 | 303 | 360 | 17 | 4,792 |
| 1850 | 9,021 | 6,624 | 1,870 | 3,761 | 311 | 23,980 |
| 1860 | 30,626 | 10,437 | 6,865 | 7,285 | 989 | 67,055 |
| 1870 | 52,922 | 15,151 | 11,019 | 12,253 | 6,982 | 128,407 |
| 1880 | 93,262 | 17,929 | 16,109 | 21,057 | 14,617 | 230,515 |
| 1890 | 166,654 | 20,334 | 24,030 | 26,638 | 19,225 | 377,746 |
| 1900 | 194,334 | 21,932 | 26,611 | 31,933 | 29,892 | 491,236 |
The railway equipment, traffic, etc., of certain principal countries is shown in this table:
| United States, 1891 |
United States, 1901 |
United Kingdom, 1901 |
Germany, 1900 |
France, 1900 | ||||||
| EQUIPMENT | ||||||||||
| Number of locomotives | 32,139 | 39,584 | 20,461 | 19,069 | 10,775 | |||||
| Number of locomotives, per 100 miles of line | 20 | 20.2 | 94 | 60 | 41 | |||||
| Number of passenger cars | 27,949 | 35.969 | 45,948 | 38,434 | 29,049 | |||||
| Number of passenger cars, per 100 miles | 17 | 18.4 | 211 | 123 | 112 | |||||
| Number of freight cars | [1]947,300 | 1,439,328 | 706,982 | 412,744 | 284,601 | |||||
| Number of freight cars, per 100 miles | 587 | 749 | 3260 | 1310 | 1100 | |||||
| PASSENGERS | ||||||||||
| Number carried during year | 531,183,998 | [2]607,278,121 | 1,172,395,900 | 842,092,000 | 453,193 | |||||
| Number carried one mile, in millions | 12,844 | 17,354 | .................. | 12,427 | 7,802 | |||||
| Number carried, per mile of line | 79,642 | 89,721 | .................. | 400,960 | 297,400 | |||||
| FREIGHT | ||||||||||
| Tons carried during year | 675,608,323 | 1,089,226,440 | 413,623,025 | 367,180,000 | (1899) 138,600,000 | |||||
| Tons carried one mile, in millions | 81,074 | 147,077 | .................. | 23,463 | (1899) 10,819 | |||||
| Tons carried per mile of line | 502,705 | 760,414 | .................. | 757,040 | (1899) 412,722 | |||||
| REVENUE | ||||||||||
| Gross earnings from operation, million dols. | 1,096.7 | 1,588.5 | 518.9 | 483 | 295.4 | |||||
| Gross earnings from operation per mile of line, dollars | 6,800 | 8,123 | 23,457 | 15,580 | 12,442 | |||||
| Revenue per passenger per mile, cents | 2.142 | 2.013 | .................. |
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(1899) .709 | |||||
| Revenue per ton of freight per mile, cents | 0.895 | 0.750 | .................. | [3]1.318 | 1.49 | |||||
| TRAFFIC DISTANCES | ||||||||||
| Average journey per passenger, miles | 24.18 | 28.58 | .................. | (1899) 14.3 | (1899) 18.1 | |||||
| Average haul per ton of freight, miles | ........ | 251.98 | .................. | (1899) 63.5 | (1899) 77.7 | |||||
| Train miles, passenger trains, in millions | 307.9 | 385.1 | (1899) 216.4 | (1899) 140.9 | (1899) 106.1 | |||||
| Train miles, all other trains, in millions | 446.2 | 491.9 | (1899) 179.6 | (1899) 146.6 | (1899) 106.5 | |||||
(Compiled for the United States from Interstate Commerce Commission Reports. For foreign countries, from various sources, chiefly the Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen, 1902.)
For further statistics and general discussion of this subject, see Railways and Steam Navigation.
Bibliography. Van der Borght, Das Verkehrswesen (Leipzig, 1894); Lindsay, History of Merchant Shipping (4 vols., London, 1874-76); Hadley, Railroad Transportation (New York, 1886); Picard, Traité des chemins de fer (4 vols., Paris, 1887); Gotz, Die Verkehrswege im Dienste des Welthandels (Stuttgart, 1888); Van Oss, American Railroads as Investments (New York, 1893); Davis, The Union Pacific Railway (Chicago, 1894); Fry, History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation (London, 1890); Bibliographies in Borght, op. cit., and Publications of Stanford University, 1895 (Hopkins Railroad Library); Interstate Commerce Commission Reports (annual); Poor's Manual of Railroads (annual); Reports of the Commissioner of Navigation (annual); Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen; Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom; Statistisches Jahrbuch des Deutschen Reichs (annual); etc.
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