THE LOCOMOTIVE. 



Of this amount about 60 per cent has been expended on per- 

 sonal locomotion, and40 per cent on the transport of goods of 

 every denomination. 



43. The movement of the locomotive engines in executing this 

 traffic has been as follows : 



Miles run by engines. 



United Kingdom 40,162000 



Germanic States 23,572000 



'France 10,041000 



Belgium . . 4,540000 



Total distance travelled by locomotive engines 



in 1850 .... . . 78,315000 



44. Since the date of these calculations, the amount of railway 

 locomotion, as well in the United Kingdom as throughout 

 Europe generally, has undergone a great increase. Thus, in the 

 half year ending 30th June, 1852, the gross receipts of the rail- 

 ways in the United Kingdom amounted to 7,19555U. 



The mileage, or aggregate distance travelled by the locomotive 

 engine, has increased in a proportion still greater than the in- 

 crease of the gross receipts. Thus, while in 1850, the total 

 annual mileage of the engines on the railways of the United 

 Kingdom was about forty millions, in the first six months of 1852 

 it was twenty-eight and a half millions, being at the rate of 

 fifty-seven millions in the year. 



It may now (1854) be assumed that the aggregate annual 

 mileage of the locomotive engines on all the European railways is 

 not less than an hundred and twenty millions of miles ! 



45. In the performance of this work, the total quantity of coal 

 consumed is two millions and three quarters of tons. 



46. This movement is shared between passengers and goods as 

 follows : 



Distance travelled by passenger trains . . 72,000000 

 ,, goods . . . 48,000000 



Since each passenger train transported on an average 70 pas- 

 sengers, and each goods train 60 tons, it follows that the total loco- 

 motion of persons within the year was equivalent to 5040,000000 

 persons carried one mile, and the transport of goods to 

 2880,000000 tons transported one mile. 



The number of locomotive engines employed in executing this 

 movement was about 7500, of which 3700 were employed on the 

 British railways, and about 5000 were constructed in England. 



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