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 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

Bristol. . . . 1,001,000 1 Grimsby (including Port Talbot . . 964,000 Immingham).

Southampton. 985,000 j Greenock and Port

Blyth .... 836,000 1 Glasgow. ..

Leith .... 748,000 iMethil ....

665,000

(122,000 590,000

Falmouth (includ- ing Truro). . 572,000 Hartlepool. . 459,000 Belfast .... 316,000

Vessels arrived coastwise with cargoes and in ballast 1918, 28,057,130 net tons ; departed, 27,079,256 net tons.

Internal Communications.

I. Railways and Tramways. The length of track open for traffic at the end of 1919 was 23,725 miles. Further statistics for the United Kingdom :—

Tear

1913 1919

Length of lines open at end of year

Total Cap- ital paid up(includ- ing nom- inal addi- tions ) at end of year

Number of Passengers conveyed (excluding season- ticket holders)

20,246 20,290

Million £

1,302-8 1.2S0-2

Millions

1,199-2 1,522-4

Weight of goods and mineral traffic origina- ting

Gross re- i ceipts in-i

eluding ' Working miseellan- Expenses

eous re-

ceipts j

Pro- portion of Net working Receipts expendi- ture to gross receipts

Million Thousand Thousand 'Thousand Per tons jB ' £ I £ I Cent.

Great Britain.

364-4 304-9

134,549 230,627

84,315 179,450

50,234 51,177

1913 1919

1913 1919

3,416 3,435

23,661 23,725

39-4 45 5

1,342-2 1,325-7

30-1 29 3

1,229-4 1,551-7 1

5-6 6-0

4,902 9,501

United Kingdom.

I 370-0 I 139,451 I 310-9 I 240,128

3,005 7,608

87,320 187,058

1,897

1 893

52,131 53,070

1 Excluding 233 million passengers carried ' free ' on behalf of the Government. The equivalent number of annual tickets representing season ticket holders in 1919 was 923,000.

The figures for years prior to 1913, owing to changes in the method of compilation, are not comparable with the figures for 1913, neither are the financial figures for 1913 comparable with those for 1919, for the following reasons, namely, there are certain small variations in the list of undertakings included in 1919 as compared with 1913 ; 1919 capital figures have been adjusted in respect of duplication ; and the 1919 gross receipts and working expenses include the figures of non-working companies. Since August, 191 -1, most of the railways have been controlled by the Government, and in consequence it is not possible to give complete statistics for the years 1914- 1918 inclusive. Control is to cease in August, 1921.

Tramways. — In 1918-19 there were in the United Kingdom 2,720 miles of tramways and light railways open for public traffic, of which 2,647 miles were operated by electric traction. Of the total mileage 1,705 miles were worked by local authorities, and 1,015 miles by companies. The totil number of passengers carried has risen from 3,426,473,192 in 1SH3 11 to 4,557,640,078 in 1918-19, an increase of 33 per cent.

II. — Canals and Navigations. The total length of canals in the United Kingdom in 1905 was 4,673 miles, of which 3,641 miles were in England and Wales, 184 in Scotland, and 848 in Ireland.