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town communications.
Table 156. Net revenue of the Swedish Railways.1
993
Average for
the years
Capital paid up.1
Thousands of Kronor.
State Private
railways, railways. Total.
Net revenue.
Thousands of Kronor.
State Private
railways, railways. otAl.
Net revenue,
In % of Capital.
State
railways.
Private
railways. Total-
1866/70 ...... 82,320 30,980 113,300 2,459 1,709 4,168 299 562 368
1871/75...... 119,0% 53,661 172,757 5,062 3,007 S,0M 426 560 4 67
1876/80...... 171,001 175,115 346,110 5,190 6,738 10,628 3 04 328 316
1881/85 ...... 215,556 232,407 447,663 7,667 8,882 16,546 3 56 3 82 3 69
1886/90 ...... 245,171 256,413 501,584 6,449 10,204 16,653 2 68 3 98 3’82
1891/95 ...... 274,622 295,884 570,506 7,261 13,160 20,421 2 64 446 368
1896/00 ...... 329,967 330,697 660,664 13,120 17,508 30,628 3-98 5 29 4 64
In 1896 ...... 310,386 316,889 627,275 12,372 16,254 28,626 3 99 518 4 66
» 1897 ............325,580 315,654 641,234 15,425 17,863 33,288 4 74 5 66 519
» 1898 ............329,431 326,662 656.063 14,508 18,673 33,181 4 40 5 72 5 06
• 1899............335,556 338,&59 673,915 12,644 17,759 30,403 3 77 5 26 4 61
» 1900 ...... 348,880 355,923 704,803 10,651 16,989 27,646 3 06 4 77 3 92
» 1901...... 365,171 373.690 738,861 8,802 16,932 25,734 2 41 4 58 3 48
» 1902»..... 396,493 • 11,589 • • 2 92
The above figures for the net profit demonstrate that our
railways produce a rather good profit from a purely financial point of
view. As regards the indirect result of our railway industry, that
cannot be easily illustrated by exact figures, but doubtlessly the
marked development our national resources have gained during the
last decades is closely connected with the building and extension of our
railways, which have also powerfully counter-acted the economical and
social isolation which the long distances have always tended to establish
between the various parts of our vast but sparsely populated country.
2. TOWN COMMUNICATIONS.
The enormous growth of population, administration, and industries
in the large towns has brought about a development in their means of
communication which constitutes one among the most characteristic
traits of our days. Sweden possessing merely two or three towns of
any considerable size, and even this being a rather moderate one, there
will of course not be the question about any competition with the great
countries in this respect, but yet, in proportion to population and traffic,
the means of communication are in a rather good state of development
1 Average of the amounts in the beginning and at the end of each year. A krona =
MO shilling or 0’268 dollar. — » For the private railways, the figures for this year are
not yet available.
Smeden. 63
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