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Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Taff Vale Railway and Docks - 'The Engineer' Article of 1866 . . .

The relative amount of revenue derived from different surces by the Taff Vale Railway Company is shown by the following table of the income derived from every department during the last eighteen months : -

Of the passengers who travelled by the railway during the half-year ending June, 1866, only 10,520 took first-class tickets, and 21,956 se, against 323,645 third-class. Periodical tickets, 214.

The receipts, for the same year, from each description of passengers were as follows : -

                     First-class . . . . . . . . .
£1,048
£125,683
  Second-class . . . . . . .
£1,419
£170,175
  Third-class . . . . . . . . .
£11,787
£1,413,572
  Periodical tickets . . . . .
£375
£44,972
     
2019 equivalent [771]
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