ABSTRACT
The conditions of passenger traffic differ in several respects from those of goods traffic. Incidental services such as invoicing, loading and unloading, collection and delivery, or transhipment are not required, though on the other hand the cost of carrying passengers is high since expensive terminal stations, elaborate safety appliances, and costly rolling stock are necessary. In Britain all express trains convey third-class passengers with the exception of some boat trains on the Southern Railway. The fare tariffs of British railways have in consequence become exceedingly complicated, and often on the same train passengers will be found travelling between the same places at half a dozen or more different fares. In 1929, in order to meet the requirements of traders who desired to travel about the country and not merely between definite points, books of vouchers were introduced covering 10,000 miles of rail travel at reduced rates.
