1929 in rail transport

none February 2012 1928 1929 1930 1920 Events thumb|Early GWR 5700 Class locomotive January events First of an eventual 863 Great Western Railway 5700 Class 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives to Charles Collett's design completed at its Swindon Works, England.E77–81 January 1 – Paul Shoup takes over the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of Southern Pacific.http://www.cprr.org/Museum/SP_1869-1944/index.html Seventy Five Years of Progress January 13, 2007 Heath, Erle December 1945 https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010751/http://cprr.org/Museum/SP_1869-1944/index.html February 6, 2007 live January 12 – Great Northern Railway (United States) opens replacement Cascade Tunnel, at 7.8 mi km on the longest through tunnel in North America.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 978-0-85112-707-1 March events March 1 – Sixty-nine railroads buy the American Railway Express Company and rename it Railway Express Agency. March 20 – Yaga Station in 5-chōme, Yaga, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, opens. March 29 – Osaka Railroad Line, Osaka Abenobashi Station to Kashiharajingu-mae Station route, is officially completed in Japan and the Osaka Abenobashi to Yoshino Station (Nara) route direct commuter train service starts (as predecessor of the Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line).December 2016 April events April 1 – Odakyu Enoshima Line, Sagami-Ono to Katase-Enoshima of Fujisawa route is officially completed in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and the Shinjuku Station (Tokyo) to Katase-Enoshima route direct commuter train service starts.December 2016 April 10 – The Randsfjord Line and Sørland Line in Norway take electric traction into use between Drammen and Kongsberg.http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ Railway Statistics 2008 Norwegian National Rail Administration 2009 pdf April 28, 2010 34 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120302040853/http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ March 2, 2012 May events May – Charles E. Denney succeeds John J. Bernet as president of the Erie Railroad.http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents March 15, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070703201657/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html July 3, 2007 June events June 29 – The last scheduled train runs on the Maine narrow gauge Kennebec Central Railroad.Two Feet to Togus Jones, Robert C. Evergreen Press 1999 978-0-9667264-1-1 75 July events July 7 – The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad begin air/rail service between New York and Los Angeles. Trip time is cut from 100 to 80 hours. August events August 6 – The Ghan begins operation in Australia. August 26 – For the first time, Canadian National uses diesel locomotives to power a passenger train, with unit number 9000 on the second section of the International Limited between Montreal and Toronto. October events October 1 – Tobu Nikko Line, Sugito via Tochigi to Tobu Nikko route is officially completed in Japan and the Tokyo Asakusa station to Tobu Nikko route direct express train service starts.December 2016 November events November 1 – The Southern Railway of England celebrates the 21st "birthday" of the Southern Belle passenger train with ceremonies at each end of the train's route between London and Brighton. Hill Keith February 2005 Brighton's Belle Époque BackTrack 19 2 70–79 thumb|150px|London Underground headquarters December events The last Willamette locomotive is built for Neils Lumber Company of Klickitat, Washington.The Shay Locomotive Titan of the Timber Koch, Michael The World Press 1971 467 December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its notable new headquarters building at 55 Broadway, above St James's Park tube station, designed by Charles Holden.David Lawrence Underground Architecture Harrow Capital Transport 1994 978-1-85414-160-6 68–71 December 10 – Ottawa Electric Railway discontinues streetcar service between Carling Avenue and the Experimental Farm.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages December 3, 2004 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history December 8, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050827060840/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm August 27, 2005 dead mdy-all December 11 – Nanbu Railway Line, predecessor of Nanbu Line, Tachikawa to Kawasaki route is officially completed in Japan.December 2016 Unknown date events Henry deForest assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific. ALCO purchases McIntosh and Seymour Diesel Engine Company for further manufacturing of diesel engines that will be installed in subsequent ALCO locomotives. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in Argentina takes delivery for suburban service of three diesel locomotives built by Armstrong Whitworth in conjunction with Sulzer Brothers, the first passenger diesels built in the UK.Webb, Brian The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894–1940 1973 David & Charles Newton Abbot 978-0-7153-6115-3 The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad ends passenger train operations.http://www.i2k.com/~dpierce/LSI/history.html A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad May 9, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050403194216/http://www.i2k.com/~dpierce/LSI/history.html April 3, 2005 dead London & North Eastern Railway adopts Eric Gill's Gill Sans typeface for its publicity material.East Coast Joys: Tom Purvis and the LNER Journal of Design History 8 4 291–311 1995 1316023 Hewitt John 10.1093/jdh/8.4.291 Births March 9 – Roger Tallon, French industrial designer (died 2011). August 23 – Richard Steinheimer, American railroad photographer, is born (d. 2011). September – Ding Guangen, Minister of Railways for China 1985-1988 (died 2012). Deaths deaths in 1929 Category:1929 deaths References 30em Colin Churcher's Railway Pages August 16, 2005 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history August 26, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080622133256/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm June 22, 2008