RAILROADS

The state-owned railroads of Austria are about 3,600 miles in length, and carried 127,000,000 passengers in 1925. The state-owned lines in Belgium have a mileage of about 3,000, and carried 222,000,000 passengers in 1925. The state-owned railroads of Bulgaria were of 1,400 miles in that year, and carried 9,000,000 passengers. In 1927 the state-owned railways of Denmark were 1,570 miles long, and the passengers carried numbered 29,000,000. The French railroads, (1926) with an approximate mileage of 26,000, carried 783,000,000 passengers. The German railroads in the same year carried 1,819,000,000 passengers and had a mileage of 33,000. The railways of Great Britain had in 1926 a total mileage of 20,396, and the number of passengers carried was over 1,500,000,000. The Dutch railroads were in 1926 of a total length of 2,260 and carried 48,000,000 people. The Italian railroads, 1926, had a total mileage of 9,800, and the number of passengers carried that year was 113,500,000. The Norwegian railroads, of a total length of 2,240 miles, carried 23,000,000 passengers in 1926. The Polish railroads, in the same year, had a total mileage of 12,000, and they carried 148,000,000 people. The railways of Sweden in 1925 were of a total length of 9,600 miles; they carried 66,000,000 passengers. The railroads of Switzerland, 3,400 miles in 1925, that year carried 148,000,000 people

The freight carried, in millions of tons, for the year reported, was 326 on the French railroads, 420 on the German ones, 240 on those of Great Britain, 78 on the state-owned lines of Belgium.