1969 in rail transport

1968, 1969, 1970

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.

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January - The PATCO Hi-Speedline, in southeastern Pennsylvania, opens.
January 5 – Last trains over the Waverley Route from Edinburgh in Scotland to Carlisle in England.^[1]

February 16 - Căile Ferate Române, in Romania, completes its systemwide electrification project.

April 5 - The South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh in England, reopens as a preserved steam railway, the Dart Valley Railway.

May 5 - The Lewes-Uckfield (or Wealden Line) railway line is closed under British Rail and Richard Beeching's Beeching Axe in East Sussex, England.
May 6 - The Chicago Transit Authority's Englewood 'L' service is extended to the new Ashland/63rd terminal.
May - A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.

September 28 - The Dan Ryan rapid transit extension of the Chicago 'L' system is placed in operation between 17th and State Streets and 95th Street in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway. The new Dan Ryan Line was originally combined with the Lake Street 'L' to form the West-South route (Lake-Dan Ryan) providing through service between 95th Street and Harlem Avenue, Forest Park, using the first of the 2200-Series rapid transit cars (2201-2350) built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Dan Ryan Line now comprises the southern half of today's Red Line.

^ Last Day of the Waverley Route. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
^ Miss Southern Belle' dies. Trains News Wire (April 27, 2005). Retrieved on 2005-05-04.
^ Bianchi, Curt (May 1995). "By steam to the Grand Canyon". Trains Magazine: p. 38-45.