1923 in rail transport

none February 2012 1922 1923 1924 1920 Events January events January 1 – All major railways in Great Britain are amalgamated into the "Big Four" companies, the Great Western Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, London, Midland & Scottish Railway and Southern Railway, under terms of Railways Act 1921.Bonavia, Michael R. The Four Great Railways David & Charles Newton Abbot 1980 978-0-7153-7842-7 January 30 – Canadian National (CN) absorbs the Grand Trunk Railway and spins off the portion of the Grand Trunk within the United States to form the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW); CN operates GTW as a subsidiary railroad. National ownership encourages freight rates favoring use of Canadian seaports in the Maritimes, and causes declining freight volumes over the New England line to Grand Trunk seaport facilities in Portland, Maine.The Grand Trunk in New England Holt, Jeff Railfare 1985 978-0-919130-43-2 February events February 7 – London & North Eastern Railway (Great Britain) takes delivery of express passenger 4-6-2 steam locomotive Flying Scotsman from its Doncaster Works.Clifford, David (comp) The World's Most Famous Steam Locomotive – Flying Scotsman Finial Publishing Swanage 1997 1-900467-02-X registration https://archive.org/details/mytreasuryoffair0000baxt March events March 10 – Norfolk & Western Railroad (United States) takes delivery of its first Y3a Class 2-8-8-2 steam locomotive from ALCO.Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm This Month in Railroad History – March March 10, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930160929/http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm September 30, 2007 live mdy SteamLocomotive.com http://www.steamlocomotive.com/articulated/nwy.shtml Norfolk and Western Class Y Locomotives March 10, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20061114163725/http://www.steamlocomotive.com/articulated/nwy.shtml November 14, 2006 dead April events April 1 – Yamaguchi Line, Ogori (Shin-Yamaguchi) to Masuda route officially completed in Japan, a direct passenger express service start from October 1961. December 2016 July events July 6 – Ongarue railway disaster: In New Zealand, about 6:00 am, the southbound Auckland to Wellington express rounds a sharp bend and ploughs into a landslip which had fallen across the railway line near Ongarue, just north of Taumarunui. 17 passengers die and 28 others are injured.New Zealand History Online: Today in History: July 6 http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=6/7 https://web.archive.org/web/20101224105013/http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=6/7 2010-12-24 2010-11-10 usurped History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage July 11 – The Ofoten Line in Norway takes electric traction into use.http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ Railway Statistics 2008 Norwegian National Rail Administration 2009 PDF April 28, 2010 34 https://web.archive.org/web/20120302040853/http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/dokumenter/Om-oss/Jernbanestatistikk/Jernbanestatistikk-2008/ March 2, 2012 dead mdy July 15 – Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad. right|180px|thumb| Victorian Railways E class 1100 July 18 – In the United States, Fruit Growers Express (FGE) and the Great Northern Railway form the Western Fruit Express (WFE) in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the west. July 20 – First Victorian Railways electric locomotive, #1100 built at its Newport Workshops, is placed into freight service in Melbourne, Australia.http://www.vicsig.net/index.php?page=locomotives&class=E&orgstate=V&type=Electric%20(1500V%20DC) VICSIG – Locomotives – E Class Electric (1200V DC) vicsig.net January 15, 2010 August events thumb|No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle August 1 – City of Glasgow (Scotland) takes over operation of the Glasgow Subway.Wright, John Maclean, Ian Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground Capital Transport Harrow Weald 1997 978-1-85414-190-3 August 4 – The Otira Tunnel (8.5 km) on the Midland Line in New Zealand opens, worked by electric traction; construction had started in 1907 and at opening it is the longest in the British Empire (and remains the longest in South Island).http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/itemdetail.cfm?itemid=63 Otira Tunnel, Midland Railway Engineering Heritage New Zealand IPENZ June 6, 2010 May 26, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100526185512/http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/itemdetail.cfm?itemid=63 dead August 11 – Great Western Railway (Great Britain) places the first of its 'Castle' Class 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotives from its Swindon Works, No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle, into service.Oswald Nock The GWR Stars, Castles & Kings David & Charles Newton Abbot 1967 978-0-7153-4743-0 September events September 27 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history.Casper Star-Tribune June 22, 2005 http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt BP Amoco Timeline June 22, 2005 Unknown date events U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission allows Southern Pacific's control of the Central Pacific Railroad to continue, ruling that it is in the public's interest. Munising, Marquette & Southeastern Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway merge to form the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad.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 The Gold Coast Government Railway's Accra–Kumasi direct line is completed. Births Unknown date births Robert R. Dowty, construction foreman for the Jupiter and 119 steam locomotive replicas at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory, Utah (died 2004). Margaret Landry Moore, "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger trains (died 2005).Trains News Wire April 27, 2005 'Miss Southern Belle' dies http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/005/872uxhif.asp May 4, 2005September 2016 medic yesmedic Frank Turpin, CEO of Alaska Railroad, 1985–1993 (died 2005).Loy, Wesley Anchorage Daily News April 30, 2005 http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6437142p-6316333c.html Frank Turpin, railroad, oil leader, dies May 4, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050430161215/http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6437142p-6316333c.html April 30, 2005 Deaths April deaths April 10 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of Illinois Central 1887–1907 (born 1851). May deaths May 16 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (born 1864). October deaths October 25 – Henry Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Northern Railway of England 1896–1911 (born 1851). December deaths December 5 – Sir William Mackenzie, part owner of Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern predecessors (born 1849). December 10 – Thomas George Shaughnessy, president of Canadian Pacific 1899–1918 (born 1853). References