Some Interesting Figures.

Speaking at the annual dinner of the Institute of Transport held in London on 21st March, Lord Daryngton (whose great-grandfather gave George Stephenson the money to put the first Railway Bill through Parliament) said that so great had been the development of transport during the past twenty-five years, that even the most imaginative man a quarter of a century ago could not have realised it. After a reference to the world-wide development of railways from the small beginnings in England, Lord Daryngton quoted some instructive figures relating to the railways of Great Britain, the United States, and Germany. The figures are as follows:—

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