Note 78 — SECTION XIII. WORKING OF ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL RAILWAYS— COMPARATIVE FACILITIES AFFORDED BY THEM.
Reading edition
The “Statistische Nachrichten Von den Eisenbahnen” shows an average of £39 6s. 5d. per person on the German railways, whereas the other information, referred to at foot of page 133, gives the following average per person:—
Traffic and General Services. £ s. d.
Superintendence, Clerks, &c. 76 18 0
Workmen 34 4 0
Workshops.
Superintendence, Clerks, &c.; 95 0 0
Workmen 45 12 0
An average of £53 8s. 0d. per person.
Note.—In Great Britain the costly systems of interlocking and signalling, and the block working, so as to interpose between trains an interval of space instead of time, are in operation to a very much greater extent than on the Continent, thus involving a larger staff of trained men.