There are many roads scattered about the Union that do a prodigious passenger business.
The publicity about the inquiries caused a significant drop in Eastern's passenger business.
This represented 20% of the total shipping on the Atlantic and a third of the passenger business.
The top management felt if they had a good reputation on the passenger business, that would pass down to the shippers.
The restrictions that pervade the international passenger business exist for air cargo, too.
By the 1970s, the advent of jet aircraft and national highways finished the passenger business.
Along with a thriving international and domestic passenger business, the company does well on cargo.
The railroad also had a considerable passenger business up until about 1920.
There does not seem to have been much attempt at passenger business in later years, nor on the Kirkintilloch main line.
"They had gotten out of the passenger business, and they weren't getting any benefit from it."