October 1 in rail transport
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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 1.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 19th century
- 1872 – The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is incorporated.
- 1872 – The first meeting of the Time Table Conventions, an organization that later became the American Railway Association, is held in Louisville, Kentucky.[1]
- 1880 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches San Marcial, New Mexico.[2]
[edit] 20th century
- 1907 – Seventeen private railroads in Japan are nationalized and merged to form Japan Railways.
- 1910 – The Great Western Railway, in England, abolishes second-class rail fares (first- and third-class remain).
- 1911 – Hudson and Manhattan Railroad trains make their first station stops at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manhattan Transfer station in New York City.
- 1911 – Nigel Gresley (later Sir Nigel Gresley) becomes Locomotive Engineer, Great Northern Railway.
- 1915 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the Navajo passenger train in San Francisco-Los Angeles-Chicago service as a replacement for the Tourist Flyer.
- 1941 – After a bankruptcy, Spokane International Railway is reorganized as Spokane International Railroad.
- 1958 – Northern Ireland's Ulster Transport Authority and the Republic of Ireland's Córas Iompair Éireann take over from the Great Northern Railway Board in running the remaining cross-border route (Dublin-Belfast) of the Irish railway system. The GNR assets are split between the two state companies.
[edit] 21st century
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ James Truslow Adams (1940). Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
