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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on October 1.
Events[edit]
19th century[edit]
- 1835 – Promoters of the Bristol and Exeter Railway issue a prospectus for the railway's construction.
- 1853 – Bristol and Exeter Railway's Yeovil branch line is fully opened for passenger traffic.
- 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]
20th century[edit]
- 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.
- 1951 – The former Blane Valley Railway line, now operated by British Railways, is closed to passenger traffic.
- 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.
- 1960 – Matsuchi Station on Japanese Government Railways' Uwajima Line is opened.
- 1974 – Freight operations are discontinued on the Yodo Line in Japan.
- 1996 – The Norwegian Railway Inspectorate is created.
- 1997 – JR East inaugurates the Nagano Shinkansen connecting Takasaki and Nagano in Japan.
21st century[edit]
- 2003 – M>Train (Melbourne, Australia) withdraws its fleet of Siemens trains for the second time.
- 2012 – Line 3 of the Tianjin Metro in China is opened.
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References[edit]
- ^ James Truslow Adams (1940). Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.