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The line graph illustrates the goods transported in the United Kingdom from 1974 to 2002 by modes of road,rail,water and pipeline transport.
Overall, the transportation of goods through road and water show a steady and significant rise over the period while the tonnes of goods by rail show the fall and steady trend but by pipeline,it shows a rise and steady trend.
As you can see the goods transported by road and water shows a steady rise throughout the period, while the tonnes of goods transported by rail and pipeline experienced a steady.
In early 1974 the tonnes of goods by road is 70 million tonnes.This was the highest among the others.However it dramatically declined to 65 million tonnes in 1982.Then there was a growth to 79 million tonnes in 1990 but it was grown to rise over the period. Although there was a steady rise and fall in the pipeline as it rose to 25 million tonnes in 1990 and fall to 20 million tonnes in 2002
