Traffic on British Railways

The recently published British railway returns for 1925 disclose how great is the volume of railway transport business transacted there. It is shown, for instance, that out of nearly 75 million parcels carried by rail the London, Midland and Scottish carried over 31 millions, the London and North-Eastern 20 millions, the Great Western 12 millions, and the Southern 8 1/2 millions. The receipts from newspapers were £1,693,055, of which the London, Midland and Scottish had £677,896 and the London and North-Eastern £427,332. Milk is listed in number of gallons and number of cans. There were nearly 278 million gallons, of which the London, Midland and Scottish carried 94 1/2 million gallons, the Great Western nearly 85 millions. The cans numbered 21 millions of which the London, Midland and Scottish had 7 1/2 millions and the Great Western six million cans. Of the meat handled the Southern carried 53,153 tons out of the total of 83,843 tons. The London and North-Eastern carried 274,000 out of 473,738 tons of the cheapest rated fish conveyed by rail during the year.