.Urban Transportation

In 1854, the year before the merger, the various companies, with 400 carriages and 3,728 horses, carried a total of 34 million passengers.

In 1860, when Paris was expanded, the Compagnie Générale owned 506 carriages and 6,716 horses, and carried more than 76 million passengers.

By 1869, this figure had risen to 116,778,796 passengers, that is 66,985,216 inside and 49,793,540 on the upper deck. Almost 20,000 had made use of connecting services. The number of carriages in operation at that time amounted to 694, and the number of horses 8,279; finally we calculated that all the carriages together covered an average of 62,777 kms a day in Paris.

I could provide plenty more figures but I expect that lovers of statistics will be quite satisfied with the ones I have given.

Paul Parfait, extract from the journal Musée Universel (1873)