1912 in rail transport

none 1911 1912 1913 1910 Events January events thumb|January 22 – The Overseas Railroad opens in Florida January 1 – The classification and renumbering of all the rolling stock of the three constituent railways that formed South African Railways in 1910 is implemented.Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 7, 12, 15, 46 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)The South African Railways - Historical Survey George Hart Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd. c. 1978 25 January 3 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia. January 22 – Florida East Coast Railway opens the Key West Extension in Florida.Florida East Coast Railway http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/keywestextension00flor Announcement: Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway 1912 March 21, 2015 February events February 1 – Stamford Brook station opens in suburban London serving District Railway and London and South Western Railway trains. February 7 – Official opening ceremonies are held for the Usambara Railway in German East Africa. February 11 – Togura Station, in Chikuma, Nagano, Japan, opens. February 27 – Pacific Great Eastern Railway (predecessor of the British Columbia Railway) is incorporated to build a line from Vancouver north to a connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Prince George, British Columbia. March events March 17 – First section of Italian Libya Railways (950mm on on gauge) opens from Tripoli. April events April 15 – Metre gauge electrified section of Tramways de Nice et du Littoral opens from Menton to Sospel in the Alpes-Maritimes of France. June events thumb|A Pleasant Street-bound streetcar at the southbound platform at North Station in 1912, five days after the Causeway Street Elevated opened June 1 – The first streetcars cross the new Lechmere Viaduct and run on the Causeway Street Elevated line in revenue service in Boston.Tremont Street Subway: A Century of Public Service https://archive.org/details/tremontstreetsub0000clar registration Internet Archive Clarke, Bradley H. Cummings, O. R. 1997 Boston Street Railway Association 0938315048 39–49Viaduct Cars All Running: East Cambridge Folk Much Pleased. Seven Minutes Saved and End Put to Vexatious Delays. Few Paid Fares to Say They Were on First Cars Boston Daily Globe 1 June 1912 502054556 June 2 – Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad, predecessor of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, begins "one-car" passenger service directly to the Chicago Loop.http://www.post-trib.com/news/1026442,SSHISTORY629.article South Shore Railroad history June 29, 2008 Chicago Post-Tribune June 30, 2008September 2016 medicmedic August events August 1 – Jungfraubahn mountain rack railway in Switzerland completed by inauguration of the subterranean Jungfraujoch railway station, Europe's highest at 3450 m ft above sea level. September events September 5 – The Ashio Railway (modern-day Watarase Keikoku Line) in Gunma and Tochigi Prefectures in Japan is extended from Omama Station out to Kodo Station.沿革・歴史 Company History https://www.watetsu.com/company/history.php live https://web.archive.org/web/20231207115203/https://www.watetsu.com/company/history.php 7 December 2023 9 February 2024 watetsu.com ja September 17 – The Ditton Junction rail crash near Widnes in England kills 15. November events November – The Royal Bavarian State Railways begins the process of standardising the railway electrification systems in German-speaking countries at 15 kV AC, 16.6 Hz.R. A. S. Hennessey Some firsts and other anniversaries; 2012 Electric Railway 57 2012 154 November 11 – The Ashio Railway (modern-day Watarase Keikoku Line) in Gunma and Tochigi Prefectures in Japan is extended from Sori Station out to Kodo Station. November 24 – The Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier Chicago to New York train is christened the Broad Way Limited (named for the railroad’s four-track main line, not the New York City Theater District). December events December 31 – The Ashio Railway (modern-day Watarase Keikoku Line) in Gunma and Tochigi Prefectures in Japan is extended from Sori Station to Ashio Station. Unknown date events First Э 0-10-0 steam locomotive introduced in Russia. This will become the world's largest class with around 14,000 built.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X John Marshall (railway historian) The world’s first diesel locomotive designed for main line use, built by Gesellschaft für Thermolokomotiven Diesel-Klose-Sulzer GmbH for the Prussian state railways, Germany, receives trials on the Winterthur–Romanshorn line in Switzerland prior to delivery to Berlin for more trials in September. The unit has direct mechanical transmission with a weight of 95 tonnes, power of 883 kW and a theoretical maximum speed of 100 km/h but will not prove to be a commercial success.Matthew Richardson The Penguin Book of Firsts 2001 Penguin Books India New Delhi 0-14-302771-9 280Churella Albert J. From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry Princeton University Press 1998 0-691-02776-5 12Glatte Wolfgang Deutsches Lok-Archiv: Diesellokomotiven 4. Transpress 1993 Berlin 3-344-70767-1 Berne gauge European standard loading gauge agreed at an international railway conference held and consequent convention signed in Bern, Switzerland. Portland Company completes the last freight car commercially manufactured for Maine narrow gauge railroads.Narrow Gauge in the Sheepscot Valley, Volume IV Kohler Gary McChesney, Chris M2FQ Publications 2004 Oliver Bury moves from the General Manager position at the Great Northern Railway in England to a directorship.https://steamindex.com/people/managers.htm#bury Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior railway officers steamindex.com 11 January 2023 Bury, Oliver Robert Hawke 10 May 2024 Births March births March 14 – W. Graham Claytor, Jr., president of Amtrak 1982-1993 (died 1994). Deaths June deaths June 16 – Eli H. Janney, inventor of the knuckle coupler (born 1831). July deaths July 29 – William D. Washburn, first president of Soo Line Railroad 1883-1889, dies (b. 1931). References Norfolk Southern Railway. Retrieved February 22, 2005. (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 6, 2005.