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THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF I;>';DIA 197
Countries with more than 20,000,000,000
passenger-Kilometre:;
1. U.S.A.
2. Germany
3. India
4. France
5. Russia in Europe
and Asia
6. Japan
57,410,000,000 (1926)
46,623,000,000
34,931,000,000
26,281,000,000
21,979,000,000
20,604,000,000
II
Countries with more than 3,000,000,000
passenger-Kilometres
:1. Cze:hoslovakia 9,264,000,000
2. Poland 6,307,000,COO
3. Australia 5,7e-6,000.000
4. Belgium 5,780,000,000
5. Canada 4,911,000,000
6. Ceylon 4,.447,000,OCO
7. Austria 3,722,000,000
8. Great Britain 3,170,000,000
9. Rumania 3,151 ,COO,OOO
10. Switzerland 3,025,000,000
India finds herself surpassed by only two countries,
U.S.A. and Germany, in the number of railway
travellers. 14 And this points. naturally to the enormous
importance of Indian railways in business organization as
regards the handling of· population movements and
14 Stati.tiaches /ahrbach 1928. PP; 67*·68.*