1952 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1952.
Events
January events
- January 13 – Union Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco is stalled in snow on Donner Pass. The train's passengers remain stranded in the train until January 16.
March events
- March 25 – The Seibu Shinjuku Line extension from Takadanobaba to Seibu-Shinjuku Station opens.
April events
- April 14 –
May events
- May 3 – Wallace station on the Stock Yards branchis closed.
- May 4 – Service is discontinued on the Humboldt Park branch.[4]
July events
- July 6 – The last tram (streetcar) runs in London, England.
- July 21 – The 7.3 Mw Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds. Southeast of Bealville46 cm (18 in) thick reinforced concrete railroad tunnel walls are cracked, tracks warped, and the gap between tunnel entrances is reduced by up to 2.5 meters (8 ft 2 in).
August events
- August 2 – The Buffalo-Exchange Street Stationopens.
September events
- September 6 – The built in the United States, and it is still in use for automobile travel.
October events
- October 4 – Brussels-Congress railway station is opened.
- October 8 – Three trains are involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England, a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
- October 17 – Automatic Train Control).[5]
November events
- November 1 – The Pacific Great Eastern Railway opens its branch from Quesnel, British Columbia, to a nearby junction with the Canadian National Railway.
- November 20 –
December events
- December 1 – Canadian Pacific Railway ushers in the modern intermodal freight transport era with the introduction of Trailer On Flat Car service.
- December 28 –
Unknown date events
- The "Chinese Changchun Railway", that portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway on the Liaodong Peninsula, is returned by the Soviet Union to Chinese control.
- National Railway Company of Belgium opens new Brussels-North railway station.
- Last
- Southern Pacific Railroad.
Accidents
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Births
- September 19 – New Jersey Transit2002–2007 (d. 2007).
Deaths
- November 19 – Yury Lomonosov, Russian-born locomotive engineer (b. 1876).
References
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- ^ "Chapter 1 – Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background". Ministry of Railways, India. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
- ^ Saxena, R. P. (2008). "Indian Railway History Time Line". Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
- ^ "Humboldt Park branch". Chicago "L".org. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-872826-12-7.
- ISBN 978-0-9544546-2-3.
- ^ Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Retrieved September 19, 2020.
- ^ "San Fernando Valley Line". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-906899-61-8.