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992
XIII. INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.
Table 155. Income and expenditure of the Swedish Railways.1
Average for
the years
Average length daring
the years.
Kilometer*.
SUte Private
railways, railways. ’otal.
Gross receipts.
Thousands of Kronor.
Stat» Private _ . ,
railways, railways. ToU1-
Expenditure.
Thousands of Kronor.
SUte Private
railways, railways.
Total.
1866/70............1,047 602 1,640 6,051 3,430 0,481 3,592 1,721 5,313
1871/75............1,299 1,080 2,37» 11,585 6,403 17,»88 6,523 3,396 1,111
1876/80............1,698 3,045 4,743 15,688 13,184 28,872 10,498 7,446 17,144
1881/85 ............2,228 4,0% 6.324 19,420 18,650 38,076 11,753 9,768 21,521
1886/90 ............2,513 4,915 7,428 20,531 21,509 42,040 14,082 11,305 25,3*7
1891/95 ............2,893 5,752 8,64$ 23,688 29,217 52,MS 16,427 16,057 32,484
1896/00 ............3,683 6,575 10,258 38,354 39,407 77,761 25,234 21,8991 47,133,
In 1896 ............3,653 6,116’ 0,760 31,773 33,325 65,0*8 19,401 17,071 i 36,472’
• 1897 ............3,676 6,233! «,900 36,102 36,512 72,614 20,677 18,649 i 3»,32»
» 1898 ............3,676 6,554! 10,230 37,824 39,363 77,187 23,316 20,6901 44.M
» 1899 ............3,680 6,749 10,420 41,446 42,161 83.607 28,802 24,4031 53,2*5
» 1900 ............3,729 7,223 10,052 44,626 45,672 00,208 33,975 28,683 , 82,1581
» 1901............3,838 7,4% 11,334 45,211 45,710 00,021 36,409 28,778 »5,187 I
» 1902»..... 3,856 7,700 11,556 46,418 46,150 02,568 34,829 . | . ,
Of låte years the goods traffic on our lines has greatly increased, as appears
by the diagram on page 990. Especially has the ore traffic increased in northern
and central Sweden and the sugar-beat traffic in the South. A further considerable
increase of goods traffic is expected after the opening (in 1903) of the Gellivare—
Ofoten railway, the traffic on which is assumed to attain from the very beginning
at least 300 million ton-kilom. per annum, corresponding to about one quarter
of the entire goods traffic on all our present railways.
The financial result of our railway industry of course varies considerably
for different lines, but has, on an average, lately proved very remunerative for
the entire network of railways. In 1897, which certainly was, as 1898,
extraordinarily favourable, our railways yielded a net profit of 5-i9 % on invested
capital (the Government railways 4"74 the private railways 5 66 %). Such a high
average is only reached by a few other European countries, the European average
being about 4 %. The explanation of this result so favourable for Sweden, is of
course firstly the above mentioned cheap costs of construction, added to which
also come the comparatively cheap working-expenses. During the last few years,
however, working-expenses have so considerably increased that the net profits
have diminished. During 1902 the returns from the Government lines were only
3-04 %. For further details see Table 156.
As to railway accidents we only have full accounts from the Government
lines. During the period of 47 years 1856/1902, a total number of 8 passengert
have been killed without any fault of their own; which is equivalent to one loss
of life for 986 million passenger-kilom. If we include the 25 fatalities caused
by the passengers’ own carelessness, the quotient reaches one fatality per 239
million passenger-kilom. Besides this, 16 travelers have been injured through no
fault of their own, and 48 through carelessness. 24 travelers have consequently
been killed or wounded through no fault of their own, or 1 for every 329 million
passenger-kilom., and, altogether have been killed or injured, on the whole, 9"
travelers or 1 for every 81 million passenger-kilom. Of railway-men 1,821 have
been injured by accidents, 373 out of which number with fatal results. As to
other people 620 have been injured, 439 of whom died.
’ Exclusive of some smaller lines, for which traffic returns are wanting. A krona = 1’M
shilling or 0’268 dollar. — * For the private lines the figures are provisional.
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