1972 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1972.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD40-2.
[edit] March events
- March 30 - The Milwaukee Road discontinues its Limburger Special service to New Glarus, Wisconsin.[1]
[edit] April events
- April 1 - The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) pulls out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, becoming a terminal road in New Jersey; this does not effect their Lehigh and New England Railway operations, however. The Lehigh Valley Railroad assumes operation of the former CNJ lines in Pennsylvania.
- April 30 - British Rail suspends operation of the Brighton Belle passenger train between London and Brighton, England.[2]
[edit] August events
- August 10 - The Illinois Central Railroad and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad merge to form the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
[edit] September events
- September 11 - Revenue service begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- September 18 - São Paulo Metro is inaugurated.
- September 27 - Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.
[edit] October events
- October 30 - The driver of a fast train does not notice a stop signal due to heavy fog and collides with another train in Schweinsburg-Culten, East Germany. 22 die and 70 are injured.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railway become parts of the Chessie System.
- The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway is officially merged into the Chicago and North Western Railway railroad.
- Donald Russell steps down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The position remains vacant until 1976.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces computer control systems in its line of diesel locomotives with the EMD SD40-2.
- Fred Burbidge succeeds Ian David Sinclair as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
- The Family Lines System is formed through the merger of several eastern and southeastern United States railroads.
- The Pacific Great Eastern Railway changes its name to British Columbia Railway.
