The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

RAILWAY RETURN,
It appears from a return just issued by the Board of
Trade that the total receipts on railways in England and
Wales for the year 1863 amounted, on 8,568 miles of rail-
way, to £26,212,8.2, including £12,262,116 for passenger
traffic, and £13,950,406 for goods traffic. The total receipts
on the Scotch railways, 2,013 miles in length, amounted to
£3,424.921, including £1,316,833 for passengers, and
£2,108,088 for goods. The total receipts on the Irish rail-
ways amounted, on 1,741 miles, to £1,518,654, including
£912,279 for passengers and £576,375 for goods, The total
aggregate traffic receipts on 12.322 miles of railway in the
United Kingdom for the year 1863 amounted to £31,156,397,
and for 1862, on 11,5 it miles of railway, to £22,128,558,
showing an increase of 771 miles and of £2,027,839 in the
receipts, of which £1,418,296 was for goods traffic, ana
£609,543 for passenger traffic, The total number of passen-
gers conveyed on lines in the United Kingdom curing the
year 1863 was 204,635,075, against 180,429,071 in the year
1862, showing an increase of 24,206,004 of passengers.
The total number of first•class passengers conveyed was
26,086,008, against 23,105,351 in 1862, showing an increase
of 2,930,657. The total number of second class passengers
conveyed was 57,476,669, against 51,869,239 in 1862, show-
ing an increase of 5,607,430. The total number of third
class, including parliamentary passengers, was 121,072,398,
against 105,451,481, in 1862, showing an increase of
15,621,917.

{The total receipts from first class passengers amounted to
£3,368,676, against £3,332,380 in 1862, showing an increase
of £36,296. The total receipts from second class passengers
amounted to L 1,201,105, against £1,018,221 in 1862, showing
an increase of £182,884. The total receipts from third class
passengers and parliamentarians amounted to £4,933,073,
against £4,639,250 in 1862, showing an increase of £2.93,823.
Considering the great obstruction to the accommodation of
third class passengers by most of the railway companies,
the large increase in the receipts is very much more than
could have been expected. The total working expenses
amounted to £15,027,234, or 48 per cent, in 1863, and to
£14,268,409, or 49 per cent, in 1862, showing an increase of
£758,825, leaving 'he net receipts £16,048,931 for 1863,
against £14,82 0,691 in 1862, showing an increase of
£1,228,240 in the amount available for interest and divi-
dends on the capital expended, The total amount paid up
on shares and loans to the end 01 1863 was £104,215,802,
the total amount authorised being £474,999,545.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Railways. Miles Opened. Receipts.

1864.

1863.

1861. 1863.

Belfast and N, Counties ..... l.l,
..,,, 136
...
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 49
28
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214
Caledonian 25, .234 t
84
ill...Workington 4 84
asdrootgnjhune
Cork and Youghal
32}
Cornwall
Cambrianccooooarrkkke,ariini
n ldaeaßak.
rock, &Passage 2g, 20
daction 63
651 53}
Deeside l7 11
63
75 75
Dublin and Meath e 35
Dub. &Wicklow and W xtd. 23
Glas7,ow & South-Western
Dublin
an &anßdeaplfil
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,& E. Union -• 664 €63
FEdarinabeussr,qaand Glasgow
Great Northern 353 851
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Ut. N orthn. & Westn. (Ira). • 71t „,
'lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.).• 373 A f..t
Great Western
4
Hull and Hurnsea 13
Irish North-Western 145
145
Kent Coast
Inavveerraneessas &&Avbeerrtdhe
Junction 119}
11t3t 167,
sgi
10
24t
Limerick
iia nn
im ce, arr
isi
eahkki raae
un&dd YlE,ooarykansi
eal 18.1 r.. . e..
26t
Llanelly 46t las
London and Blackwall
London & North-Western
London & South-Western . 4504 ,01
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 "
Do. Metropolitan Extension 113 10*London, Chatham, & Dover 72 251
Man.,Sheflield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. &Jun.& Altrincham. • vt u&
Haryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 636
Midland Gt. Wes tn. of Irind. • • 262 2594
Monkland 7l} 71
Ntla-ErtahsLteornndaonnd.!
.....
...
... .
Monmoutlish. Rail. Edin &.C, Canal 44 Ili
North British,
and Dundee ........ 920
North Staffordshire .......... 254
Oswestry and Newt0n........ 50
Grand
,‘
,Vvlroaraahalhlinitiei
lihymney l9}
Scottish Central ............
D..a.r.L lOl,
Scottish North-Eastern .....
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon ...... 75}
South-Eastern 306
Tail* Vale 67
Ulster
10
• ......
Vale of Neath 434
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
77
West Cornwall 27}
W. Ha2tlepool Harbr.&Rail 52
Irhaven,Cleator,& Egrinut lO
13
VVliitehaven & Furness J un— . 34
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern J unction ... • 4„,ru
Eastern Bengal
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukio l-
,
Dutch Rhenish .... 108}
... HO
Eastorn 01 le",,nce.. ........... 1135
East Indian - • '''•" ....•
•,1
,an „ „ 101-,
1090
Great c , ' '
,etk.ra. 04 Belgium.... 18)
Great Indian Peninsula 5,3
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southeen of India ... 79
Great Western of Ca ad • 345
Canada a .
Madras .. ........
Madrid, Saran-
,ossa .tAiicaut.„ 650
Northern of Canada ....
Northern of France ••• • • 697
Southern of Francr&eaartac.
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn... • 1805
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 77}
Royal Danish 69
Icinde
south lO6
south Austrian
tebadeorahatfryila, C,
ri
va.
idul
jewnasnartY, n;tojndoddal Limerick
unction
1527
..
Victorian 196
Welland .. , 25
West Flandera ----...
75
W. and N. W. of France .
ed11::i n.
d.
; 4.
1:47"64

X - L-
-2,411 2,378
882 794
2,265 1,719
8,u89 7,963
20,541 18.045
1,752 1,556
351 317
330 4t7
'232 257
556 545
2,174 1,639
449 331
1,353 1.380
1,842 1,166
256 4t7
8,380 3,174
9,135 8.776
3,238 3,133
1,657 9,5t,3
34,635 32,626
38,032 33,340
5Q5 2,0c2

361 '3i
9,451 8,498
72,15 t 67,297

235
1,861 1,488
2,321
il,BlB 1,586
3,20 J 120
43,473 38,090
185 183
116 9}

785 6;
118,071 108,561
2,221 2,183
29,907 28,287
29,069 29,569
8,2.4 6 872
2,700 1,480
19,367 17,3 i 5
1,503 1,415
1,571 1,26!
2,.60 1,978
49,, 83 45,503
4,186 4,190
1,7,8 1.460
2,711 2,519

1104
10791
252

15,91 t 15.029
63,686 57,347
3,528 3,3 . 5
0,631 8,751

lgi
91
188
39i
76A
3O

57
1051
10

1,038 923
6,569 5,455
5,765 5,710
949 h 92
4,543 4,375
30,296 3u,197
5,722 5,672
2,314 2.221
256 270
3,131 2,579

.395 394
3,153 I,t 25
766 747
4.574 4.990
641. 6e2
1,017 88)
857 tO4

825 31,2,8 3' C6O
38 33"
18.41 302 295
4 3,714 2,7c8
1,3
101,4 1,968 1.921
4,401 2 6,8
!(14,31 7,•;85 6,436
„4„1,,,0 1,012 1,606
4,,"„4 65,572 67,044
.‘i2l 21, :59 18,5,4
1090 20, 15 16,072
495 5,6 8 ),sus
11,128 11,133
111 4,54 t 4,357
70 031 667
3'5 8,9,17 8026
447 6,304 5.360
490 1•,470 20,010
94 2,352 ~I=7
697 65,585 53,805
14 1,416 1,001
481 387 343
1713 13?,616 128,350
1404 62,615 67,060
77
69 582 682
105 1.518 2,272
1474 50,680 47,640
680 29,964 27,088
196 8,831 9,743
25 554 367
75 1,255 1,171
813 51,827 45,874