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198 THE RAILWAY 'INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF . INDIA
earnings of traffic. India's high position in the traffic of
goods is equally manifest in the international statistics.
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. The leading .countries may be classified in the two follow~
ing groups on the basis of goods that may be said to
"have been carried at least one kilometre by th~ railways
during the year 1927 :
Countries with more than 30,000,000,000
T on~Kilometrc3
1. U.S.A 631,700,000,000
2. Russia in Europe
and Asia 81,650,000,000
3. Germany 71,917,000,000
4. Canada 55,893,000,000 (1926)
5. France 44,075,000,000 (1926)
o. India 35,813,000,000
7. , Great Britain 30,818,000,000
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Countries with more than 4,000,000,000
T on~Kilometres
Poland ,19,011,000,000
Italy 13, J 83,000,000
Japan 12,455,000,000
Belgium 7,870,000,000
South Africa 6,948,000,000
Australia 5,401,000,000
Rumania 4,693,000,000
In the comparative statistics of ton~kilometres, then,
Indian railways exhibit a high carrying capacity. The
amount of traffic in goods that takes place on the Indian