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x. internal communications.
route have been provided with wireless-telegraphy apparatus on the
Telefunken system, with a wave-length of 375 meters, chiefly for the
transmission of official telegrams, but also for sending private communications.
The coast stations are at Trälleborg and Sassnitz harbour, while the
ves-selstations are the Swedish and the German boats. There were despatched
and received private telegrams during 1914, from the wireless station at
Trälleborg 50 messages with a total of 943 words, while the
steamer-stations had transmitted during the same period 1 040 telegrams with a total
of 11 568 words.
Traffic and Finances.
At the end of 1913, the capital invested in all the railways running in
Sweden was estimated in round figures to amount to a total of about 1 100
million kronor, which is equivalent to about 77 000 kronor per km. This
average figure is lower than that for any other country in Europe. On
the average a kilometer of European railway costs something like 320 000
kronor, or quite four times as much as a kilometer of Swedish railway.
The cause of this remarkably low cost of construction in Sweden must, in the
first place, be sought in the fact that almost all our lines are still single ones,
and, generally, as being calculated for a less heavy traffic than the great
mainlines abroad, have been able to restrict themselves to a less extensive
arrangement of railway stations and to less rolling stock. A number of other
circumstances also contribute to the low cost of construction, viz., that the requisite
ground, more especially on the long stretches across Norrland, has often been
furnished free of cost by the County Councils, communes, and private persons,
and that the construction of lines, with the exception of the above mentioned
costly bridges, has been carried out without expensive constructive works.
Table 128. Income and Expenditure of the Swedish Railways.
Annually Average length during the years Kilometers1 Gross receipts Thousands of kronor Expenditure Thousands of kronor
State railways Private railways Total State railways Private railways Total State railways Private railways Total
1866-70. . 1047 602 1649 6 051 3 430 9481 3 592 1721 5313
1871—75. . 1299 1080 2 379 11585 6 403 17 988 6 523 3 396 9919
1876- 80. . 1698 3 045 4 743 15 688 13184 28872 10 498 7 446 17 944
1881-85. . 2 228 4 096 6 324 19 420 18 650 38 070 11753 9 768 21521
1886—90. . 2 513 4 915 7 428 20 531 21 509 42 040 14 082 11305 25 387
1891-95. . 2 893 5 752 8 645 23 688 29 217 52 905 16 427 16 057 32484
1896—00. . 3 683 6 575 10258 38 354 39 407 77 761 25 234 21899 47133
1901—05. . 4 038 7 970 12 008 49 996 49 834 99830 37 228 30 420 67 648
1906-10. . 4 315 8 944 13 259 64 902 66 009 130 911 52 519 56 473 10S992
1911. ... 4495 9400 13895 76617 74407 151024 58610 60442 119052
1912. ... 4 550 9 485 14 035 83 204 79 447 162 651 62 909 63 454 126363,
19132 ... 4 692 9 570 14 262 88 693 85 222 173 915 66 867 73 881 140 7481
1 Exclusive of some smaller lines, for which traffic-returns are lacking. — 2 Provisional
figures for the private lines.
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