1903 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1903.
Events
January events
- January 20 – The Grand Trunk Western Railroad opens a passenger depot in Lansing, Michigan.
- January 28 – Esmond Train Wreck: fourteen people are killed when the Crescent City Express (No. 8, bound for Benson, Arizona) collides head-on with the bound Pacific Coast Express (No. 7, bound for Tucson).
February events
- February 12 –
March events
- March 3 – Baker valve gear for steam locomotives is first patented in the United States.[3]
April events
- April 7 – Apalachicola Northern Railroad, later to become AN Railway, is chartered.
May events
- May 3 – The Mersey Railway, operating between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel beneath the River Mersey, England, converts from steam to electric traction.[4]
- May 13 – The
- May 25 – The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad opens, becoming the first railroad in the United States to use an electrified third railto power its trains.
July events
- July – Regular passenger traffic from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok over the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways begins.
- July 1 – Opening of the metre gauge) in Switzerland, passing through the Albula Tunnel, the highest of the principal Alpine tunnels at 1370 m.[6][page needed]
- July 13 – Danbury Union Station in New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, opens.[7]
- July 27
- Construction begins on the Baghdad Railway with the 200-kilometre (120 mi) segment between Konya and Bulgurlu in the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey).[8]
- Glasgow St Enoch rail accident, Scotland: sixteen killed when a train crashes into the buffers.
- Construction begins on the
August events
- August 10 – Paris Metro train fire, France: electric fire on Paris Métroat Couronnes; 84 killed.
- August 17 – The Great Western Railway becomes the first British railway company to operate its own road motor services (i.e. buses), between Helston and The Lizard in Cornwall.[9]
September events
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- September 27 – Southern Railway passenger train derails on a trestle in Danville; eleven people are killed.[10][11]
October events
- October – Experimental electric trains, built by AEG and Siemens & Halske, reach 210.2 km/h (130.6 mph) between .
- October 1
- The first railway in Hovedbanen, is opened.[12]
- The Gold Coast Government Railway is extended from Obuasi to Kumasi.
- The first railway in
- October 21 – Howard Elliott succeeds Charles Sanger Mellen as president of Northern Pacific Railway.[13]
- October 26 – The
- October 31 – The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railway football special carrying the Purdue University football team and fans to the annual game with Indiana Universitycollides with a coal train. Fourteen of the team and three other passengers are killed.
November events
Kalka-Shimla Railway
- November 9 – The 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)
December events
- December 14 – The New York, New Haven and Hartford introduces the all-parlor car Merchants Limited between Boston and New York City.[16]
Unknown date events
- The British broad gauge Indian Railways.[17]
- Southern Pacific Railroad gains 50% control of the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, California.
- The Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway opens as the first railroad to have a guarded third rail.
- The provisions of the Railroad Safety Appliance Act, enacted in 1893, are extended to include all railroad cars whether or not the cars themselves are used in interchange service.
- compound locomotives (built by Baldwin Locomotive Works) into service.[18]
- Union Pacific.
- London & North Western Railway.
Accidents
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Births
April births
- April 10 – Edward T. Reidy, last president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1957–1968.
Deaths
March deaths
- March 29 – Swift & Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America(born 1839)
July deaths
- July 27 – Norfolk & Western(born 1844).
Unknown date deaths
- railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.
References
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- ISBN 0-948275-46-4.
- ^ Blake, LeRoy W. (May–June 1979). "Remembering the A.D. Baker Company". Farm Collector: 4. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ISBN 0-907768-40-7.
- ^ "BP Amoco Timeline". Casper Star-Tribune. June 22, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2005.
- OCLC 24175552.
- ^ Gulder, Bill. "A Brief History of the Danbury Railway Museum". Archived from the original on 2005-07-25. Retrieved 2005-07-12.
- ^ "Baghdad Railway". Trains of Turkey. 2004-12-01. Retrieved 2005-07-22.
- ISBN 0-86093-050-5.
- ^ "Many People Killed". The Anglo-Saxon. Rockingham, NC. October 1, 1903. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Nine Are Killed". The Topeka State Journal. Topeka, KS. September 28, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ISBN 82-90286-15-5.
- ^ Railway Age Gazette (August 1, 1913) pp. 177-8.
- ISBN 0-916374-66-1.
- ^ Northern Railways of India. "Kalka-Shimla Railway". Archived from the original on November 18, 2005. Retrieved November 8, 2005.
- ISBN 978-0-7603-2288-8.
- ^ Bhandari, R.R. (2000). "Steam in History". Indian Railways Fan Club. Archived from the original on 26 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
