ielts task 1 goods transported in uk

The line graph illustrates the data of the amount of freight transported via the four different modes, rail, road, water and pipeline of transport over a period of 28 years from 1974 to 2002 in UK transport, transported was measured in million tonnes. Overall, all modes of transport are increasing year on year. It can be seen that road was the most popular and stable mode of freight transport in the period, followed by water, although in 1974 it was a little behind rail but gradually increased in the following years. The lowest amount of transport is done through the pipeline. In 1974, goods transported by road were nearly 70 million tons, fluctuating continuously to about 80 million tons in 1994 and then skyrocketed to nearly 100 million tons in 1998 and remained stable towards the end. By contrast, the rail transported 40 million tons in 1974 and this number gradually decreased to about 30 million tons in 1986. It continued to show a period of instability before recovering back to its original position of about 40 million in 2002. Looking at the chart, it can be seen that the first years of the pipeline of 5 million tons and the waterway of 40 million tons have quite similar increases. From 1974 both increased rapidly in 1981, then remained stable, the pipeline was about 18 million tons and the waterway was about 60 million tons until 1991. Starting from here, the waterway showed signs of cooling down to about 52 million tons but until 1998 has skyrocketed while the pipeline has remained stable with 22 million tons until the end of time.