October 1 in rail transport

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 1.

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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]

1907 – The Empire of Japan completes the nationalization of nationwide 17 private railroads.
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.
1996 – The Norwegian Railway Inspectorate is created.

2003 – M>Train (Melbourne, Australia) withdraws its fleet of Siemens trains for the second time.

^ 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.