1967 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1967.
Events
January events
- January – General Electric introduces the GE U30C.
February events
- February 21 – The last shunting horse to work on British Rail, "Charlie" at Newmarket, is retired.[1]
March events
- March 1 – Hankyū Senri Line, Osaka, Japan, opens.
- March 6 – Railways between Beeching Report.
- March 20 – British Rail reopens the remaining section of line on the Isle of Wight, from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, after electrification to the Southern Region standard (750 V DC third rail) using former London Underground "Tube" stock.[2]
- March 24 – Soo Line Railroad discontinues passenger train operations.[3]
- March 24 – Tanimachi Line, Osaka, Japan, opens.
April events
- April 1 – The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) begins work.[4]
- April 20 – The CGW merger.[5]
May events
- May 23 – GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, begins operations in Southern Ontario.
July events
- The Seaboard Coast Linerailroad.
- July 3 – Closure of Nottingham Victoria Railway Station, Nottingham, UK
- July 9 - Cessation of steam operation on the Southern Region of British Railways.
- July 19 – The passenger car.
- July 25 – Construction begins in San Francisco, on the Market Street subway.
August events
- August 5 – The Illinois Central Railroad discontinues the Land O'Corn passenger train.[6]
September events
- September – United States Postal Service announces cancellation of most Railway Mail Service contracts.[7]
- September – Grand Trunk Railway ends passenger service between Montreal and Portland, Maine.[8]
- September 14 – Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, opens.
- September 30 – The Monon Railroad ceases all passenger train operations. Its last train is the Chicago–Louisville Thoroughbred.[9]
October events
- October 2 – diamond crossing at Bedell, Ontario, the junction of the railway's Winchester and Prescott subdivisions.
- October 5 – The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") discontinues the Arrow passenger train.
- October 28 – Canadian Pacific Railway moves the last of its equipment out of its Ottawa West yard to the new Walkley Yard.[10]
December events
- December 3 – The Penn Central.
- December 10 – The Pennsylvania Railroad discontinues its all-Pullman (sleeping car) Broadway Limited, and assigns the train's name and much of its services to the General on the same New York-Chicago run, adding coaches and a separate dining car for coach passengers.
- December 20 - The Pennsylvania Railroad achieves its highest speed on their New York Division (a.k.a. Northeast Corridor) while operating one of their Turbo Liners.
- December 29 – The first steam locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay locomotive.[11]
Unknown date events
- Southern Pacific Railroad opens the longest stretch of new railroad construction in a quarter century as the first trains roll over the Palmdale Cutoff through Cajon Pass.
- The Central Railroad of New Jersey declares bankruptcy.
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD FP45.
- diesel-electric locomotives from its Vulcan Foundry to Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses, its first mainline locomotive export order for continental Europe.
- Southern Railway (US).
- Cessation of steam operation on the Eastern Region of British Railways.
Accidents
- February 28 – shunting error, killing the driver and 8 passengers and injuring 16.[12]
- March 5 – signalman.[13]
- June 18 – A home-made bomb explodes on a Hyōgo-Himeji local commuter train at Shioya Station on the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. No one claims responsibility in this case, which kills two persons with 29 wounded.[14]
- July 31 – Thirsk rail crash on the British Rail East Coast Main Line at Thirsk: an express train collides with a derailed freight. 7 passengers are killed, 45 injured, and prototype diesel locomotive DP2 is written off.[15][16]
- November 5 – Hither Green rail crash on the Southern Region of British Rail in south-east London: derailment caused by a broken rail; 49 killed.[17]
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Births
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Deaths
May deaths
- May 13 – Eric Treacy, English railway photographer, former Anglican bishop (born 1907).
December deaths
- December – Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1945–1966 (born 1897).[18]
References
- "Norfolk Southern Railway". Archived from the original on February 6, 2005. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
- "This Month in Railroad History: July". Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
- ISBN 0-85131-395-7.
- ISBN 0-7110-1392-6.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "This Month in Railroad History: March". Retrieved March 24, 2006.
- ^ National Transportation Safety Board (March 15, 2005). "New NTSB publication examines 30-year history of transportation safety improvements". Archived from the original on 2005-05-10. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- ^ "Week at a glance: Chicago roads get merger reaffirmed". Railway Age. 164 (23): 11. June 17, 1968.
- ISBN 978-0-7385-5074-9.
- ^ Bergman, Edwin B. (1980). 29 years to oblivion: the last years of Railway Mail Service in the United States. Omaha, Nebraska: Mobile Post Office Society.
- ISBN 0-919130-43-7.
- ISBN 978-0-253-34216-4.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005). "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Archived from the original on February 5, 2007. Retrieved October 28, 2005.
- ^ Illinois Railway Museum (May 5, 2005). "History of the IRM". Archived from the original on April 29, 1998. Retrieved November 7, 2005.
- ^ Ministry of Transport (1968). Railway accident:, Report on the collision that occurred on 28th February 1967 at Stechford in the London Midland Region British Railways. London: H.M.S.O.
- ISBN 0-11-550079-0.
- ^ "About The Marshland, note 1". Standpoint Japan. Retrieved December 20, 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ISBN 0-11-550036-7.
- ^ Brown, Murray (August 2007). "Disaster at Thirsk – DP2 destroyed". Rail Express. 135: 20–23.
- ^ "Derailment at Hither Green (Summary)". Railways Archive.
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives. "Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945–1967". Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2006-02-09.