Lenin: 1916/ni-mu: RAILWAY STATISTICS (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “μ”

(“MU”)

RAILWAY STATISTICS

The Statesman’s Year-Book, 1915 (London, 1915) (52nd year). Edited by J. Scott Keltie.

“The British Empire”, 1913- 14

Railways open

+8 Malta
United Kingdom 23,441 miles
India 34,656
Cyprus 61
Ceylon 605
Straits Settlements and Federative Malay States 771
“Borneo and Sarawak” 130
Asia (except India) 1,567
Australia and Oceania 23,021
Africa 17,485
America 31,953
ΣΣ = 134,131 [1]

1 mile = 1.6 km.; 134 ✕ 1.6 = 214,400 km.; 130 ✕ 1.6 = 208.0
771 ✕ 1.6 = 1,233.6 + 208 = 1,441 km.

Railways in the Dutch colonies (end of 1913)

1,512 miles — Java
209 ” Sumatra “Dutch East Indies”, includingBorneo and Celebes.
Σ= 1,721 ”

1,721 ✕ 1.6 = 2,753.6 km.

Dutch West Indies (Curaçao, Surinam = Dutch Guiana)—no railways.

⋕ Neumann-Spallart, Surveys of World Economy, 1883-84. p. 508. “In Mauritius there has been no addition since 1882 to the two railways totalling 92 miles.”

Ibidem, p. 512.

1895
Angola = 350 +
Mozambique = 90
92 miles ✕ 1.6 = 147.2 km. + 440 = 587
147.2 ÷ 587 = 25.1 per cent.
1890
Σ 1890 =910 about 98 km. British (Mauritius)
—520 292 ” Portuguese (Angola
390 km. and Mozambique))
390 390 ✕ 25.1 = 97.98
+520 French
Σ=910
⋕ Ibidem, p. 504. Jamaica (1885)— 107 km.
Barbados 42
Martinique (“short” railways)? no information...
1890 1913 We assume 40 km. in 1890for Martinique (less thanin Barbados)
Jamaica 313
Martinique 224
Barbados 175
Trinidad 142
Σ=474 854

Four small colonial powers

Holland 3,060 3,781
1,361 2,854 ⟶ 2,914
—2,854
4,421 6,635 60
Portugal 2,149 2,983
346 1,706
Belgium 5,263 8,814
— 1,390
Italy 12,907 17,634
— 155
Σ= 25,086 39,317

(Eleven countries)

Spain 9,878 15,350
Switzerland 3,190 4,863
Scandinavia 11,566 21,354
Austria-Hungary 27,113 46,195
Rumania 2,543 3,763
Serbia 540 1,021
Bulgaria and Turkey 1,765 1,994
1,931
Greece 767 1,609
57,362 98,080

British railways in Africa [1913]

6,399
1,775
5,582
3,872
Σ= 17,628
5,946
3,790 (1,099 + 192 + 418 + 302 + 1,567 + 212 = 3,790
27,364
Asia America British in Asia
1890 1913
British railways 27,000 22,712 55,761 56,732
308 434 971 +92
100 35 56,732 56,824
27,408 23,181 +1,380
58,112
+92 Malacca
58,204
1890 1913
Asia 33,724 108,147
Africa 9,386 44,309
Australasia 18,889 35,418
61,999 187,874
Europe 166.2 268.9
British Empire 107.3 207.8 1913
Russian Empire 32.4 78.1 Europe 346,235
Eastern Asia 3.3 27.5 America 570,108
America 308.1 521.9 Others 187,874
Σ= 617.3 1,104.2 Σ= 1,104,217
617,283 1,104,157
  1. United States
  2. British Empire
  3. Russia
  4. Germany
  5. France
  6. Small colonial powers (Holland, Portugal, Belgium, Italy)
  7. Rest of Europe
  8. Japan
  9. South America
  10. Semi-colonies....
1890 1913
Mexico 9,800 25,492
Central America 1,000 3,227
Independent Antilles 1,846 4,621
12,646 33,340
1890 1913
Asia Minor 800 5,468 Asia Minor
Persia 30 54 Persia
1,130 (Siam)
China 200 9,854 (China)
1,030 16,506
1890 1913
Asia British 27,408 58,204
Africa ” 5,470 27,364
Australia ” 18,889 35,276
Great Britain 51,767 120,844 ⎫⎪⎪⎪⎬⎪⎪⎪⎭
France 3,729 12,093
Holland 1,361 2,854 Portugal
Portugal 292 1,624 + 54 .... 82
Belgium — 1,390 292 .... 1,624
Italy — 155
Germany — 4,176 346 1,706
United States — 1,112 +}
142
Russia
Colonies: Σ= 57,149 144,390 + 1,433 ... 15,910
Japan 2,333 10,986
Semi-Colonies {Asia Minor, Persia, Siam, China} 1,030 16,506
60,512 171,882
1,433 15,910
61,945 187,792 } 61,999 187,874
54 82

Notes

[1] So given in the Statesman’s Year-Book.—Ed.

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