Rising freight figures
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FIGURES published this week show that the railways accounted for only five per cent of the money spent on freight movements during 1975, and only eight per cent of passenger fares.
Britain spent £9,161 million cm moving its freight in 1975 — the last year for which figures are available — and only £341 million went to British Rail.
On the passenger side the ;tory is the same — passenger fares accounted for £8,938 million of the country's xpenditure, but only E.524million was spent on travelling by train, while Z865million went on travelling )y bus or coach.
During the year, fares went ip by 33 per cent compared vith 30 per cent for motor /Miele running costs.
In passenger transport, the iulk of the expenditure still ;oes on private cars which tccounted for £7,359million.
Mileage of goods vehicles ell by one per cent during the rear when compared with 974. Goods vehicles travelled 10,000million vehicle kilonetres to carry 67 per cent of he goods.
Mileage and volumes of bus Ind rail traffic stayed at the ame level as in 1973 and 1974 1 54,000million passenger Mometres for bus traffic and 5,000million for rail. Total motor traffic in 1975 was 241,000million vehicle kilometres, which showed a slight increase over the 1974 figure but it is still below the peak, pre-fuel crisis level of 1973.
The figures are contained in a new volume of figures, Transport Statistic, Great Britain, 1965 to 1975 published by HMSO at £5.50.