APPENDICES.

APPENDIX I.

COST OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. (FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY CONGRESS, VOL. X., No. 7, JULY 1896.)

- Numbers.

Great Britain and Ireland,

31. 12. 1894

France,
Russia,

31. 12. 1894

6 Italy,

Belgium (State Railways), 31. 12. 1893

31. 12. 1890

8 Switzerland,

31. 12. 1893

9 Spain,

31. 12. 1889

10

Netherlands,

11 Denmark (State Railways),

31. 3. 1892

947

12 Norway,

14

13 Sweden (State Railways), Roumania (State Railways),

31. 12. 1894

1,900

16,051,650 8,448

24,259,250 15,907

15 Servia, .

Total for all the world, 427,224 × 16,900 7,217 millions.

* Apparently ten rupees have been assumed to be equal to £1. Taking the rupee at about 16d., the cost would be £8175.

1,993

15,352,600

7,101

244,048 3,014,983,900 12,354

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APPENDIX II. See Folding Table opposite.

APPENDIX III.

GROSS EARNINGS, EXPENSES, AND NET EARNINGS PER MILE PER WEEK,
PAYING INTEREST ON A LINE COSTING 10,000 UNITS PER MILE.