History of Inland Transport 



Buildings (not returned under other Heads) 



Works, Repairs, and Maintenance 

 Provender . ... 



Iron and Steel Manufactures 

 Grease ..... 

 Trucks, Barrows, &c. . 

 Other Manufactures and Work Done 



New 



Value. 



92,000 

 308,000 

 178,000 

 II5,OOO 



39,OOO 

 454,000 



Total Other Productive Departments . 2,999,000 



Grand Total Goods Made and Work Done 



34,703,000 



The cost of the materials used was ^17,600,000. Deducting 

 this amount from the total of the foregoing table, there is 

 left a net sum of ^17,103,000 to represent wages and establish- 

 ment charges ; though it may fairly be assumed that a good 

 deal even of the /i 7, 600,000 which stands for cost of materials 

 was on account of wages previously paid for the procuring 

 or the preparation of those materials by other than non- 

 railway servants. 



The total number of persons employed by the railway 

 companies in the manufacture of the goods or in the execution 

 of the work comprised in the statement was 241,526, in the 

 proportion of 232,736 wage-earners and 8790 salaried persons. 

 This figure of 241,526, however, is not necessarily to be added 

 to the 608,750 previously given as the number of railway 

 servants connected with the working of railways. There is 

 nothing to show to what extent the two tables overlap, 

 though overlapping there obviously is, since the first table 

 includes 66,305 permanent- way men, while the second table 

 evidently includes the persons employed on permanent-way 

 work, since the value of that work is put down at ^9,346,000. 

 On the other hand, some classes of servants included in the 

 Census of Production returns are excluded from the Railway 

 Accidents return, so that although the exact number of 

 persons directly employed by the railway companies of the 

 United Kingdom cannot be stated, it must be somewhere 

 between 608,750, the total of the one return, and 850,276, 

 the sum of the totals for both returns. 



All the figures thus far given relate to work done by persons 

 directly employed by the railway companies themselves ; but 

 there is, in addition, a vast amount of work done for the 



