Railway Traffic Still Falling.
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Railway statistics for September, 1931, which have recently been published by the Ministry of Transport, show that the total number of passenger journeys (excluding those made by season-ticket holders), taken on all standard-gauge railways in Great Britain, was 95,850,838, a decrease of 5.1 per cent, as compared with the figure for September, 1930. The journeys undertaken by passengers at reduced fares decreased by 2,604,421, and those at standard or _ordinary fares by 2,532,231. The receipts from passenger traffic showed a decrease of £519,829, or40 per cent.
The total tonnage of freight conveyed (excluding free-hauled traffic) was 22,046,929, a decrease of 2,547,405 tons OIL the figure for September, 1930. Freight-train receipts fell by £549,674 and freight-train miles by 491,965: Facilitating the Loading and Unloading of Carcasses.
The, accompanying sketch shows a particularly interesting loading device mounted in the interior of an insulated body. This was exhibited at the recent Commercial Show in Paris, where it was to be seen on a Lath l chassis. The carrier is intended for large carcasses, which are suspended from quadruple hooks, these being mounted on hangers. Each hanger has, at its top, a roller bearing on the flange of a continuous channel-steel member which is carried around and secured to the roof.
Three uprights are mounted along the centre line of the body ; the middle one is merely a roof support, but the other two have wheels mounted at their upper ends. The hook carriers are spaced by doable lengths of wire cable, and this cable passes around the wheels on the uprights, so that as the carcasses are mounted on the hooks they can be pushed along, bringing unoccupied hooks into position.