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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)

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Interior of the new Hammersmith Signal Box, London Underground Railways.

Interior of the new Hammersmith Signal Box, London Underground Railways.

Progress along the path to prosperity continues to be made by the Home railways. Each of the four group systems serving Britain looks forward with confidence to the future, for on all sides there is evidence that the worst of the depression is over.

That this optimism is well-founded is illustrated by an examination of recent traffic returns. These show satisfactory increases, on both the passenger and freight sides, over the corresponding period of last year. At the moment of writing, the London, Midland and Scottish Line claims the largest increase in passenger traffic, while to the London and North Eastern goes a striking increase in freight business. Railways rightly may be regarded as trade barometers: the latest railway returns certainly seem to indicate that we are definitely at the commencement of a welcome industrial revival.