1975 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.
Events
February events
- February 22 – Tretten train disaster: A head-on collision near Tretten station in Norway kills 27.
- February 28 – Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground: A train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43.[1]
March events
- March 10 – Sanyo Shinkansen opens between Osaka and Fukuoka. Travel time between the two cities is reduced to 2 hours 30 minutes, and from Fukuoka to Tokyo to 5 hours.
- March 10 – Kosei Line, between Yamashina of Kyoto and Tsuruga route open, with Osaka-Kanazawa, Niigata route express train, through changed from via Hikone, Nagahama route.[citation needed]
April events
- April 1 – The second American Freedom Train tour begins, powered by newly restored Southern Pacific 4449, in Wilmington, Delaware. See also American Freedom Train - 1975-76 station stops.
- April 16 – In Portugal, Decree-Law 205-B/175 is published, nationalising the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses.[2]
June events
- June 6 – An overnight northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, does not receive warning of a temporary speed restriction resulting in the Nuneaton rail crash.
- June 8 – Two trains collide on a single-track stretch between Lenggries and Munich due to a dispatcher's error. Forty-one die and 122 are injured.
July events
- July 1 – Australian National Railways Commission takes over assets of Commonwealth Railways.
- July 18 – Barcelona Sants railway station opens.
- July 19 – Hatton Cross tube station opens, the first stage of the extension of London Underground's Piccadilly line to London Heathrow Airport.[3]
August events
- August 5 – The first Amfleet passenger cars enter service on the Northeast Corridor.[4] They are Amtrak's first new intercity passenger cars and the Budd Company's last.
- August 10 – British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region.
September events
- September 24 – Scottish-built ex-État 140C 287 on hire to CFTA works a train from its depot at Gray, Haute-Saône, to Sainte-Colombe, the last commercial steam-hauled working on French railways.
- September 27 – Official opening of the National Railway Museum in York, England.
October events
- October 19 – US-built SNCF Class 141R 1187 of Vénissieux depot works a special return working between Lyon and Veynes, the last steam-hauled passenger train operated by SNCF.
- October 24 – The first through passenger train over the TAZARA Railway arrives in Dar es Salaam,[5] marking completion of this Chinese-funded 1,860 km (1,160 mi) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge link between Tanzania and Zambia.
November events
- November – English-built SNCF Class 140C 38 works a freight train between its depot at Gray and Chalindrey, the last steam-hauled train operated by SNCF.[6]
December events
- December 2 – A train hijacking takes place at the village of Wijster in the Netherlands by activists wanting to endorse the self-proclaimed Republic of South Maluku in the Maluku Islands. Hostages Hans Braam, Leo Bulter and Bert Bierling are shot. The activists surrender on December 14.
- December 14 – Japanese National Railways runs its last official steam-hauled passenger train, from Muroran to Iwamizawa on Hokkaido with JNR Class C57-135.[7]
Unknown date events
- The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad files its third and final bankruptcy.
- Last steam locomotive operated by State Railways of Finland.
- As a result of the Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies.[8]
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References
- ^ Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited.
- ^ "CP Timeline". Retrieved November 22, 2009.
- ^ Green, Oliver (1988). The London Underground – An Illustrated History. Ian Allan. p. 62. ISBN 0-7110-1720-4.
- ^ Amtrak. "Digging into the Archives: Introducing Amfleet". Retrieved June 8, 2014.
- ^ "Tanzania Greets Train". The New York Times. Agence France Presse. October 25, 1975.
- ^ "140 C 38 Steams Again After 38 Years". The SNCF Society News. September 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ "The Final Passenger Steam Train". The Last days of Japanese Steam Engines. Archived from the original on September 13, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ National Transportation Safety Board (March 15, 2005). "New NTSB publication examines 30-year history of transportation safety improvements". Archived from the original on May 10, 2005. Retrieved May 15, 2005.