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XIII. INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.

The Traffic on the Swedish Railways, in 1866197.1

(The red line denotes the number of passenger-kilometers, the black line the numU-r of

ton-kilometers of goods).

At the end of 1901 the cost of construction of the Government
railways amounted to about 370 million kronor and that of the private
railways to about 390 million kronor. The cost of the former per kilom,
consequently comes to about 90,000 kronor, of the latter to about oO.mm
kronor. The ordinary gauge private lines separately cost alxnit 62,t*Ni
kronor per km. and the narrow-gauge 30,000 kronor.

Data with regard to the extent of the traffic on the Swedish
railways are given in Tables 153 and 154, and with regard to the financial
result in Tables 155 and 15(5.

The total passenger traffic in 1901 amounted to 77,000 passenger-kilom.
per kilom, of railway, and on the Government railways alone to 124,000, but on
the private lines only to 53,000. Only on some smaller distances the European
average (314,000 passenger-kilom. per kilom, of railway) is reached or exceeded,
which is chiefly due to the sparse population of Sweden but partly also to the
competition with the communications by water, so numerous in our country.
Every inhabitant of Sweden traveled in 1901 on the average 175 km. by rail;
the corresponding average figure for Europe is 223 km. From this point of view
the passenger traffic in Sweden does not fall so far below the average. — Of the
total number of passengers in 1901 (apart from the transport of troops) 8-4 %
traveled 1st or 2nd class, and 9T6 °i 3rd class.

1 In the years 1898/1902 the number af passenger-kilometers has been resp. 683. 771.
833. 886 and 909 millions, and the number of ton-kilometers of goods resp. 1.260, 1.33b,
1,470, 1,469. and 1.500 millions.

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