Note 1 — Chapter X · THE STEPHENSON CENTENARY—HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.
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: At the close of 1880 there were 17,700 miles, employing 300,000 persons, and 13,174 locomotives. In this vast net-work of iron roads a capital of not less than £70,000,000 is sunk, yielding an annual return of £30,000,000. Upwards of 600,000,000 journeys are made on the average every year.