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x. internal communications.
The average speed of passenger- and goods-trains is comparatively low; on the
State lines, for expresses it is 50 km an hour; for ordinary passenger trains, 36
km, and for goods-trains 18 km an hour (1913). The greatest allowable speed
for express trains is, at present, 90 km an hour.
Sleeping-car, State Railways.
Management. Tariffs.
The central administration of the State railways is in the hands of the
Royal Railway Board, which is appointed by the Government, whilst the
current traffic and its regulation is managed by five District
Administrations, the members of which are also appointed by the Government. In
connection with the very extensive right of determining matters relative
to economic questions conferred on the Royal Railway Board, on the
occasion of the last reorganization of that body (1908), there have been
placed on that Board two railway-commissioners appointed by the
Government for two years in succession, who take part in the greater number of
the important decisions come to by the Board. There is also a special
superior board of revisors, consisting of three persons outside of the
body of the railway administration and appointed by the Government
each successive year for the examination and control of the accounts of
the State Railways and of the administration carried out by the Board.
The private railways, on the other hand, are managed by Boards
appointed by the railway companies concerned, on which Boards, if any
public loans or government subventions of any kind have been given, the
Government usually has representatives.
Concessions for the construction of private railways are, as a rule,
granted by the Government, which also fixes the tariffs for the State
railways, as well as for private ones. The ordinary regulations for the general
rules of traffic on all railways are also issued by the Government, whilst,
on the other hand, the more special service instructions, such as those
having regard to signalling, measures of precaution, etc., are drawn up by
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