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none February 2012 1951 1952 1953 1950 Events January events January 13 – Union Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco is stalled in snow on Donner Pass. The train's passengers remain stranded in the train until January 16. March events March 25 – The Seibu Shinjuku Line extension from Takadanobaba to Seibu-Shinjuku Station opens. April events April 14 – Indian Railways divisional organisation completed by formation of the Eastern Railway, created by amalgamating three lower divisions of the East Indian Railway (Howrah, Asansol and Danapur), the entire Bengal Nagpur Railway and the Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway; the Northern Railway, created from remaining divisions of the EIR, the Eastern Punjab Railway and others; and the North Eastern Railway created by merger of the Oudh and Tirhut Railway and the Assam Railway.http://www.easternrailwaysealdah.gov.in/WebForm/FrameContent/Engineering.html Sealdah division-Engineering details The Eastern Railway, Sealdah division dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120215161611/http://www.easternrailwaysealdah.gov.in/WebForm/FrameContent/Engineering.html February 15, 2012 http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecode/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1_Data.htm Chapter 1 – Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background Ministry of Railways, India December 23, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090601024404/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecode/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1_Data.htm June 1, 2009 deadhttp://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm Saxena, R. P. Indian Railway History Time Line 2008 December 23, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092028/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm February 29, 2012 dead mdy-all May events May 3 – Wallace station on the Chicago "L" Stock Yards branch is closed. May 4 – Service is discontinued on the Chicago "L" Humboldt Park branch.http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/humboldt.html Humboldt Park branch Chicago "L".org August 16, 2013 July events July 6 – The last tram (streetcar) runs in London, England. July 21 – The 7.3 w Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds. Southeast of Bealville 46 cm on thick reinforced concrete railroad tunnel walls are cracked, tracks warped, and the gap between tunnel entrances is reduced by up to 2.5 m us. August events August 2 – The Buffalo-Exchange Street Station opens. September events September 6 – The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway car ferry Badger is launched. It is the last coal-fired, passenger-carrying steamship built in the United States, and it is still in use for automobile travel. October events October 4 – Brussels-Congress railway station is opened. October 8 – Three trains are involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England, a crash that kills 112 and injures 340. October 17 – British Railways initiates trial of a new Automatic Warning System (Automatic Train Control).Hall, Stanley 2000 The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, vol. 1: Broad Survey Friends of the National Railway Museum York 978-1-872826-12-7 November events November 1 – The Pacific Great Eastern Railway opens its branch from Quesnel, British Columbia, to a nearby junction with the Canadian National Railway. November 20 – Brush Bagnall (England) formally hand over first of batch of class M1 A1A-A1A diesel-electric locomotives for Ceylon Government Railway, its first mainline diesels.Allan C. Baker Civil, T. D. Allen Bagnalls of Stafford High Halden Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust 2008 978-0-9544546-2-3 December events December 1 – Canadian Pacific Railway ushers in the modern intermodal freight transport era with the introduction of Trailer On Flat Car service. December 28 – Pacific Electric discontinues interurban service over the Cahuenga Pass between Los Angeles and Van Nuys, California.Veysey Laurence R. A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 June 1958 http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/pacificelectric/1958-history-of-rail-passenger-service-operated-by-pacific-electric-since-1911.pdf LACMTA 19 September 2020San Fernando Valley Line http://erha.org/pewsfv.htm Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California 8 September 2020 Unknown date events The "Chinese Changchun Railway", that portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway on the Liaodong Peninsula, is returned by the Soviet Union to Chinese control. National Railway Company of Belgium opens new Brussels-North railway station. Last standard gauge compound locomotives built: Norfolk and Western Railway 2-8-8-2 Class Y6b Mallet #2200 from its Roanoke Shops, the last conventional steam freight locomotive for road service constructed in the United States; and SNCF Class 241P mixed-traffic 4-cylinder Chapelon 4-8-2 #241P-35 at Le Creusot in France.J. T. van Riemsdijk Compound Locomotives: an international survey Penryn Atlantic Transport 1994 978-0-906899-61-8 Donald J. Russell takes over as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Accidents uncollapsed Births September 19 – George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998–2002, executive director of New Jersey Transit 2002–2007 (d. 2007). Deaths November 19 – Yury Lomonosov, Russian-born locomotive engineer (b. 1876). References 30em