1977 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1977.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 May events 1.3 June events 1.4 September events 1.5 October events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Deaths 3 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 10 - Passenger service on Boston and Maine Railroad's Lexington Branch ends when a train consisting of a Budd Rail Diesel Car and a switcher locomotive are stranded by a snowstorm at the Bedford, Massachusetts depot.^[1]
• January 18 - Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train. (see Granville railway disaster)

[edit] May events

• May - Auto-Train Corporation launches a second Auto Train, this time between Louisville, Kentucky and Sanford, Florida.
• May 9 - The last Paris-Istanbul train with the name Orient Express makes its final run. The name persists as a train running from Paris to Vienna.
• May 23 - A train highjack takes place at the village of De Punt, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Activists aim to endorse the self proclaimed Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands. Ath the same time a hostage situation occurred at a school in Bovensmilde. The Dutch Marines stormed the train at June 11, 1975 after six Starfighters flew over the train, creating a noise and distraction for the hostage takers. Six hostage takers and two passengers lost their lives in the operation. The activists at the school surrendered after they learned of the faith of their fellow acivists in the train.

[edit] June events

• June 16 - Construction begins on the Minsk Metro in Belarus (at the time, still a part of the Soviet Union).

[edit] September events

• September - The second Auto Train route to Louisville, Kentucky is discontinued due to heavy financial losses.

[edit] October events

• October 26 - Locomotive number 043 903 pulls the last regularly scheduled mainline train on German tracks to be hauled by a steam locomotive.^[2]

• October 29 - First run of the Maple Leaf.

[edit] Unknown date events

• The Glasgow Subway shuts down for a complete system overhaul.
• W. Graham Claytor is succeeded by L. Stanley Crane as president of the Southern Railway.
• VIA Rail Canada takes over operations of the Super Continental passenger train from Canadian National.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22, 2005.

1. ^ Friends of Bedford Depot Park, Inc. (March 18, 2000), A Chronology of Bedford's Railroad History. Retrieved January 10, 2006.
2. ^ Translated from Portal:Bahn/Jahrestage/26.10. (Deutsch). Retrieved on 2006-10-26.