1931 in rail transport

none June 2013 1930 1931 1932 1930 Events January events January 1 – Ernest Lemon succeeds Sir Henry Fowler as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Terry Jenkins Sir Ernest Lemon Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2011 978-0-901461-58-2 45–5 January 11 – The Boston and Maine Railroad runs its first “Snow Train” for skiers and other winter vacationers. March events March 17 – Sangu Express Railway Line, Osaka Uehonmachi to Ujiyamada of Ise route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of Kintetsu Osaka Line and Kintetsu Yamada Line).December 2016 May events May 23 – The North Bay Railway (20 in (508 mm)) opens at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, with the world's first diesel-hydraulic locomotive, 4-6-2 1931 Neptune, Hudswell Clarke works no. D565. May 24 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates the first air conditioned passenger train, the Columbian, between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.Harry Stegmaier Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, Vol. 2 – Route of the Capitol Limited Lynchburg, Va. TLC Publishing 1997 1-883089-00-X May 30 – Maine Central Railroad ends train service to the Bar Harbor ferry.The Best of Maine Railroads Johnson, Ron Portland Litho 1985 111 June events June – The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee in Ireland (3 ft (914 mm) gauge) introduces the first diesel engined railcar to enter regular passenger service in the British Isles.Patterson, Edward M. The County Donegal Railways 1969 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4376-9 thumb|right|Schienenzeppelin June 10 – The German rail zeppelin (Schienenzeppelin), an experimental propeller driven railcar, sets up a new world railway speed record of 230 km/h on its way from Hamburg to Berlin which was not surpassed by any other train for 24 years. June 13 – Switzerland's Brienz Rothorn Bahn mountain railway reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I. thumb|180px|left|Milano Centrale July events July 1 – Rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station opens in Italy. July 19 – Sudbury Town station on London Underground Piccadilly line opens as rebuilt by Charles Holden, the first of his iconic modern designs for the network.David Lawrence Bright Underground spaces: the London Tube station architecture of Charles Holden Harrow Weald Capital Transport 2008 978-1-85414-320-4 thumb|180px|right|Sudbury Town August events August 6 – Ferrovie del Sud Est established in Italy. September events September 1 – Joetsu Line, Miyauchi of Nagaoka to Takasaki, including Shimizu Tunnel route officially completed, as same time, Ueno of Tokyo to Niigata direct express train service start in Japan.December 2016 September 12 – Just outside Budapest, a bomb planted by a Hungarian Fascist destroys a section of the Biatorbágy Viaduct, plunging the Orient Express into the ravine below. Twenty people are killed. Entertainer Josephine Baker, one of the surviving passengers, gives an impromptu concert to calm other survivors. October events October 17 – The Japanese Government Railways Hanawa Line in Iwate and Akita prefectures reaches Rikuchū-Ōsato Station.JTB 1998 4-533-02980-9 Ishino Tetsu I Japan 109 Japanese ja: 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編 Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR November events November 12 – The Smithsonian Institution commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull by operating its mechanism with compressed air. December events December 29 – Willingdon Bridge (modern-day Vivekananda Setu) is opened, carrying rail and road over the Hooghly River in West Bengal between Howrah and Calcutta.Symphony of Progress: The Saga of Eastern Railway 1854-2003 Eastern Railway 2003 Kolkata 31 Unknown date events Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Factory turns out first Class FD (Felix Dzerzhinsky) 2-10-2 steam locomotive which will become the USSR’s principal freight type, with 3213 being built up to 1942. A wide gauge railway line connecting Estonian towns Tartu and Pechory is opened; thereby Estonian seaports are directly connected to central areas of Russia and Ukraine.Ajalugu http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc Eesti Raudtee April 23, 2012 et https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc September 23, 2017 dead mdy-all Births Unknown date births Nelson W. Bowers, president of the National Railway Historical Society (1983–1987) (died 2004). Deaths January deaths January 13 – Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902 (born 1869). References