MORE TRAMWAYS ABANDONED
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THE Ministry of Transport has just issued a return of tramway undertakings in Great Britain, excluding enterprises transferred to London Transport, for the year ended December 31, 1934, for companies, and March 31, 1935, for local authorities. It may be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, price 2s. 6d. net.
The tramway route mileage at the end of the period covered by the return was 143 less than at the end of the preceding period, this being due to the abandonment of tramways systems in favour of trolleybuses or motorbuses. A reduction of £2,775,643 in capital expenditure, which is shown, is due, mainly, to writing off the cost of superseded tramway capital assets.
The return also gives particulars of the working of trolleybus undertakings anti shows that the number of passenger journeys during the year was 309,489,352, compared with
221,083,825 in the preceding period— an increase of 36.29 per cent. The total number of trolleybus route miles is shown as 349; 257 were operated by municipalities and 92 by companies. The vehicle-miles run totalled 31,652,387, which contrasts with 24,659,381 for the previous year.