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RAILWAYS. TRAFFIC AND FINANCES.
987
At the Falun—Rättvik railway.
labours of a committee during 1888. is noticeable on the one hand for
a detailed classification of goods, and on the other for markedly
decreasing freight tariffs, which have been fixed to a number of 12,
besides a specially low tariff for certain heavier articles of transport.
The new classification of goods includes considerable reductions for
certain articles employed in agriculture, forestry, and mining business,
such as for manures, feeding stuffs, corn, butter, timber, metals, iron
and steel, etc. — The tariffs of the rate for carrying passengers are, as
far as the middle and southern parts of the kingdom are concerned, not
descending, but amount to 8-5, 6, and 4 ore per kilom, (l’s, 1’3, and 0-8 5 d.
per mile) for the three different classes respectively of express trains, and
5*25 and 3 s öre per kilom. (l’i and 0*75 d. per mile) for the second and
third classes of other trains. For return tickets the charge is half as
much again as for a single journey by the cheaper trains. Considerable
reductions have, besides, been conceded for journeys by »combined» tickets,
for frequently recurring journeys on the same line. For long journeys
on the Government railways north of Stockholm, a special tariff, viz.,
IV* ore for second class and 1 öre for third class per kilometer over 300
(per mile resp. 0-3 and 0’2 d.) has since 1894 been successfully applied.
A scheme for a new passenger tariff on the State railways was
during 1903 worked out and submitted to the scrutiny of the
Government. This scheme chiefly concerns the furtherance journeys of greater
extension and is established on the principle of the zone-tariff with abating
scale. A good example of the consequences of this method is that,
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