1924 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1924.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March events
- 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.[1]
- March 31 – American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry.
[edit] May events
- May 8 – Arthur Honegger’s “Pacifica 231” premieres. The orchestral tone poem reflects Honegger’s impressions of steam engines.
[edit] June events
- June 7 – London, Midland and Scottish Railway opens the luxury Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.[2]
- June 28 – The streetcar system in Adrian, Michigan, is abandoned.[3]
[edit] August events
- August 7 – Streetcars operate for the last time in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to be replaced with buses.
- 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.
[edit] September events
- 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.
[edit] October events
- 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.[4]
[edit] November events
- 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.[5]
- November 30 – Raumabanen from Dombås to Åndalsnes in Norway is opened.
[edit] December events
- December 17 – The first Diesel-electric locomotive enters service, on the docks in the Bronx.
[edit] Unknown date events
- ALCO produces its first diesel locomotive using electrical components from General Electric.
- Hitachi Ltd. builds Japan's first electric locomotive.[6]
- The first section of the Barcelona Metro opens.
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] February deaths
- February 16 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (born 1858).[7]
[edit] References
- Michiganrailroads.com, Railroad history timeline - 1920s. Retrieved June 28, 2005.
- Williamsport Bureau of Transportation (2005), History of Mass Transit in Williamsport. Retrieved August 7, 2005.
- ^ Jones, Robert C. (1993). Two Feet to the Lakes. Pacific Fast Mail. p. 221. ISBN 0-915713-26-8.
- ^ Ferneyhough, Frank (1975). The History of Railways in Britain. Reading: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-060-8.
- ^ "Railroad History Timeline: 1920-1929". RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1920s/TimeLine1920sBackUp.htm. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
- ^ "Head on at Deschenes". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/Article2002_2.html. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ^ "Test Diesel Locomotive Shch". Relics of Science & Technology Database. Polytechnical Museum. 2004. http://eng.polymus.ru/?h=relics&rel_id=30&mid=&aid=30&aid_prev=30. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
- ^ "Hitachi Metals Ltd.". Fundinguniverse. http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/HITACHI-METALS-LTD-Company-History.html. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
