The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport

The line chart illustrates information regarding through which medium how much quantity of goods were transported from one to another in the United Kingdom between 1974 and 2002.

Overall

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, it is crystal clear that water was the preferable option for transportation followed by roads which were at the highest.

To begin

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with, pipelines were only able to carry 20 million tonnes of weight which was not much as compared to others,

however

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, it improved a lot from its initial days. Talking about rail and water, they started their journey from the same point but water could hold almost 60 tons of quantity in 2002,

while

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rail stayed at 40. Interestingly, roads were the best which carried almost 75 million tons even in 1974 and reached nearly 100 in the

last

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year even after having some fluctuations