EARNINGS.
General Merchandise, Cattle, Minerals, &c 5,212,865
It will be observed that there is not a very great difference in the receipts from the three classes of travellers : the second-class passengers are the most productive, then the third-class, and the first-class stand last in amount of money payments. Though railways have become the great means for in- land passenger travelling, instead of merely conveying heavy goods, for which they were originally projected, the above figures show that the re- ceipts from goods-traffic, excluding the half-million derived from horses, carriages, em., considerably exceed those from passengers. The total receipts for the half-year of some of the _principal lines in the Three Kingdoms were as follows. In England-North-Western, 1,554,8971.; North-Eastern, 770,4581.; Midland, 699,835/. Great Western, 621,8341.; Eastern Counties, 533,2991. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,502,5241. - Great Northern, 496,212/. ; South-Eastern, 370,8941.; South-Western, 3,662!.; Brighton, 296,3171. In Scotland, the Caledonian Railway received the
The receipts of railways were 469,446/. more in the first half of 1855 than in the same period of 1854; the totals being 9,424,603/. in 1854, and 9,894,0491. in 1855. These were the proportions m which the receipts of 1855 were derived from the various sources of railway revenue.
First-class Passengers X1,232,787 Second-class Passengers , ,
Third-class Passengers 398,298
Parliamentary Passengers 968,457
Holders of Periodical Tickets 87,190 Excess Fares 13,250
Horses, Carriages, Luggage, Parcels, and Mails
largest amount-290 536!. ; Glasgow and South-Western, 143,9051.; North British,119,948/. ; FAlinburgh and Glasgow, 110,3521. Among the Irish Railways, the Great Southern and Western stands the highest-156,482k ; Midland Great Western, 66,2081.
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