1901 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1901.
Events
January events
- January 3 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas.[1]
February events
- February – The Canadian Locomotive Company is formed from the assets of the bankrupt Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
- February 2 – The body of Queen Victoria is conveyed by the London & South Western, London, Brighton & South Coast and Great Western Railways from Gosport via London to Windsor, England for her funeral.[2]
March events
- March 1 – First section of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway opens to the public.[3]
April events
- April 1 – The West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is opened throughout to Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.[4]
- April 1 – Atlantic Coast Line Railroad acquires the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in North Carolina.
- April 11 – The Yamagata.
May events
- May
- Frederick D. Underwood succeeds Eben B. Thomas as president of the Erie Railroad.[5]
- Sekondi on the coast to Tarkwa.
- May 27 – Sanyo Railroad Line, JR Sanyo Line).[6]
June events
- June – First section of Gold Coast Railway (3 ft 6 in gauge) opens from Sekondi on the Gulf of Guinea to the gold mining district of Tarkwa.
- June 14 – The Seacoast Railroad.
- June 24 – The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) is formed through the merger of eight smaller American steam locomotive manufacturers.
July events
- July 25 – The Hull Electric Railway officially begins regular service over the
August events
- August 5 – Queenscliff Junction, in Victoria, Australia, is closed.[8]
September events
- September 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), having purchased the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and renamed it to the Grand Canyon Railway, begins to operate a passenger train service over its new subsidiary railroad between Williams, Arizona, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon as a destination for ATSF's customers.[9]
October events
- October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 Hz frequency on the Royal Prussian Military Railway.[10]
- October 13 – The London and South Western Railway in England completes experimental installation at Grateley on its West of England main line of automatic semaphore signals controlled by track circuits and pneumatics, the first such scheme in the United Kingdom.[11][12][13]
November events
- November – Official start of traffic on Chinese Eastern Railway.
- November 7 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas.[14]
- November 12 – The Pacific Electric Railway is incorporated in California.[15]
December events
- December 2 – The Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway is incorporated.[16]
- December 3 – The 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) first part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is opened.[17]
- December 12 – Pennsylvania Station.
- December 17 – The first section of the Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway in Switzerland is opened from Montreux to Les Avants(10.9 km or 6.8 mi).
- December 21 – "Last spike" ceremony for the Uganda Railway (metre gauge), completed from Mombasa to Port Florence (Kisumu) on the shore of Lake Victoria.[18]
- December 24 – The New Zealand Government Railways become the first major railway to place a 4-6-2 steam locomotive into service, having ordered thirteen Q class from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.[19][20]
Unknown date events
- Southern Pacific Railroad.
- ALCOmerger.
- American Car and Foundry (ACF) acquires Jackson and Sharp Companyand Common Sense Bolster Company.
- George Frederick Baer becomes president of Reading Company.
- The Lake Shore Electric Railway is formed through the merger of the Lorain and Cleveland Railway, Sandusky and Interurban Railway and Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway.
Births
December births
- December 11 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950–1966, is born (died 1969).
Deaths
January deaths
- January 6 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator caroperators (born 1832).
February deaths
- February 9 – Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), who founded the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (born 1835).
- February 18 – Egide Walschaerts, Belgian inventor of a steam locomotive valve gear (born 1820).[21]
April deaths
- April 13 – South Eastern Railway and the Great Central Railway(born 1819).
Unknown date deaths
- Jacob S. Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers and second president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
References
- ^ Beck, Wayne. Cotton Belt News (1957). "The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway". Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
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- ISBN 978-3-89917-448-9.
- ISBN 978-0-946537-22-8.
- ^ "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- ^ ja:山陽本線#歴史#年表#山陽鉄道 (Japanese language ) Retrieved January 13, 2017.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history". December 3, 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2005. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
- ^ "History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway". Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
- ^ Bianchi, Curt (May 1995). "By steam to the Grand Canyon". Trains: 38–45.
- ^ Nisbet, Alistair F. (2021). "Express Electric Railways". BackTrack. 35: 297–301.
- ISBN 978-0-902888-81-4.
- ISBN 978-0-86093-541-4.
- ^ Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved July 7, 2007.
- ^ Missouri Pacific Historical Society (2005). "St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS)". Archived from the original on October 1, 2005. Retrieved November 7, 2005.
- ISBN 978-0-7385-4688-9.
- ^ "South Shore Railroad history". Chicago Post-Tribune. June 29, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1995). På meterspor i Nidaros. Oslo: Baneforlaget. p. 6.
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- ^ "Q Class 4–6-2 Register". TrainWeb. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-901461-22-3.