1924 in rail transport

none 1923 1924 1925 1920 Events January January 24 – Vladimir Lenin's funeral train is hauled from Gerasimovskaya (Gorki) to Moscow Paveletskaya railway station by locomotive U-127. March March 12 – Electrification is completed on what is now Hamburg S-Bahn's Line 1 between Ohlsdorf and Poppenbüttel. March 19 – Baldwin Locomotive Works completes the last locomotive commercially manufactured for Maine narrow gauge railroads.Two Feet to the Lakes Jones Robert C. Pacific Fast Mail 1993 0-915713-26-8 221 March 31 – American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry. April April 12– Kyushu Railroad Line, as predecessor for Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line, Fukuoka Tenjin to Kurume route officially completed in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan.December 2016 April 27 – The New York Central Railroad introduces the Ohio State Limited passenger train between New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio. May May 8 – Arthur Honegger’s “Pacifica 231” premieres. The orchestral tone poem reflects Honegger's impressions of steam engines. June June 7 – London, Midland and Scottish Railway opens the luxury Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.Ferneyhough Frank The History of Railways in Britain Reading Osprey 1975 0-85045-060-8 June 28 – The streetcar system in Adrian, Michigan, is abandoned.http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1920s/TimeLine1920sBackUp.htm Railroad History Timeline: 1920-1929 RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum March 12, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090227061650/http://michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1920s/TimeLine1920sBackUp.htm 27 February 2009 dead July July 31 – Uetsu Line, Niitsu of Niigata to Akita route officially completed in Japan, as same time, Osaka via Niitsu to Aomori route direct express train service start.:ja:羽越本線#歴史#全通以降 (Japanese language) Retrieved January 13, 2016. August August 7 – Streetcars operate for the last time in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to be replaced with buses.Williamsport Bureau of Transportation 2005 http://www.citybus.org/history1.html History of Mass Transit in Williamsport 7 August 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050808082738/http://www.citybus.org/history1.html 2005-08-08 dead August 10 – A first section for Rome–Lido railway, Porta San Paolo of Rome to Ostia Antica route, officially regular service start in Italy.:it:Stazione di Ostia Antica#Storia August 14 – The New York Central tests a General Electric diesel-electric locomotive. The locomotive succeeds in starting a train of 93 cars on level track. September September 28 – The Chicago and Alton Railroad places "the handsomest train in the world" into Chicago – St. Louis service. The red painted, million dollar train competes with Illinois Central Railroad's green and black Daylight Special and Wabash's blue Blue Banner Special. October October 23 – Two trolley cars of the Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa collide head-on due to a misunderstanding in operations around track maintenance work.http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/Article2002_2.html Head on at Deschenes Colin Churcher's Railway Pages October 23, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060928025043/http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/Article2002_2.html 2006-09-28 dead November November 3 – Lytham rail crash on London, Midland and Scottish Railway occurs when a locomotive tyre fractures. 14 people are killed in the subsequent derailment as the train hits a bridge and a signal box. November 7 – Experimental three-truck diesel-electric locomotive Ys. N 002 (designed by Ya. M. Hakkel) makes first trial trip on the Oktyabrskaya Railway in the Soviet Union.http://eng.polymus.ru/?h=relics&rel_id=30&mid=&aid=30&aid_prev=30 Test Diesel Locomotive Shch Relics of Science & Technology Database Polytechnical Museum 2004 January 12, 2010 November 30 – The Rauma Line from Dombås to Åndalsnes in Norway is opened. December December 17 – The first diesel-electric locomotive enters regular service, on the docks in the Bronx. December 30 – The first section of the Barcelona Metro opens in Spain. Unknown date The London and North Eastern Railway in Britain officially names its Flying Scotsman express train, although the 10.00 a.m. service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley over the East Coast Main Line has previously been known by this title, and has operated since 1862. Electrification of the Paris suburban network begins. ALCO produces its first diesel locomotive using electrical components from General Electric. Hitachi build Japan's first electric locomotive.http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/HITACHI-METALS-LTD-Company-History.html Hitachi Metals Ltd. Fundinguniverse January 15, 2010 Births births in 1924 Category:1924 births Deaths February deaths February 16 John William Kendrick, chief engineer 1888–1893, general manager 1893-1899 and vice president 1899-1911 of Northern Pacific Railway and vice-chairman of the board for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, dies (b. 1853). Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (born 1858).John Marshall John Marshall (railway historian) Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 0-901461-22-9 References Michiganrailroads.com, Railroad history timeline - 1920s https://web.archive.org/web/20060716082438/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1920s/TimeLine1920sBackUp.htm 2006-07-16 . Retrieved June 28, 2005.