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- Events January events February events March events April events June events July events September events October events November events December events
- Accidents
- Deaths July deaths
- References
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}{{Year in rail transport|prev=1985|curr=1986|next=1987|decade=1980}}EventsJanuary events- January 1 – The Soo Line Railroad fully absorbs the Milwaukee Road after attempting to operate it as a subsidiary railroad.
- January 3 – Vancouver's SkyTrain begins operations between the waterfront and New Westminster.
February events- February 8 – 23 people are killed in the Hinton train collision when a Via Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National Railway freight train near Hinton, Alberta.
- February 17 – Class 59 Co-Co diesel locomotives built by EMD for Foster Yeoman introduced into heavy freight service on British Rail, the first US-built (and privately owned) diesel locomotives to operate regularly on the English network.[1]
March events- March 3 – Shin-Narashino Station, on what is now JR East's Keiyō Line in Narashino, Chiba, Japan, is opened.[2]
- March 25 – Conrail makes its initial public offering of stock starting at US$28 per share.[3]
April events- April 1 – The Prince and Princess of Wales open Heathrow Terminal 4 tube station on London Underground's Piccadilly line. Trains do not start serving the station until April 12, when the corresponding terminal starts handling flights.[4]
June events- June 1 – The Amsterdam–Schiphol railway is opened by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
- June 2 – Very Fast Train Joint Venture first meets in Australia.
July events- July 24 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad,[5] citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.
- July 26 – The Lockington rail crash at Lockington, Humberside, England occurs when a van is struck on a level crossing. Eight passengers on the train, and a boy of 11 in the van, lose their lives.
September events- September 5 – The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad begins operations in Minnesota and South Dakota.
- September 5 – Portland, Oregon's light rail system, MAX, opens for service.[6]
- September 8 – The Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad becomes the last common carrier freight railroad in America to cease using steam locomotives as primary power when the dry-pipe in their CLC 2-8-0 No. 17 steamer collapses.
- September 19 – Two high speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash; the driver of one of the two trains was the only fatality of this accident.
October events- October 31 – Closure of the "Corkickle Brake" serving a chemical works at Whitehaven, Cumbria, the last commercially operated standard gauge cable railway in the United Kingdom.[7]
November events- November 11 – Preserved steam locomotive British Railways Standard class 8 71000 Duke of Gloucester is officially recommissioned to service on the Great Central Railway following a 13-year restoration from part-dismantled condition.[8]
- November 15 – Australia's well known steam locomotive 3801 is recommissioned at the Hunter Valley Training Company in New South Wales.
- November 21 – The Florida Central Railroad begins operations in Florida, United States.
- November 27 – Oslo Central Station in Oslo, Norway is taken into use.
December events- December 30 – The Trans-Gabon Railway is completed.
Accidents{{1986 railway accidents|state=uncollapsed}}DeathsJuly deaths- July 14 – Raymond Loewy, industrial designer who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad designing the shape of equipment such as the GG1 (born 1893).
References - {{cite web|date=April 3, 2005 |url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history |accessdate=August 6, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050905040306/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archivedate=September 5, 2005 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
1. ^{{cite book|author=Marsden, Colin J.|title=Foster Yeoman – The Rail Story|publisher=Channel AV Publishing|location=Bournemouth|year=1998|isbn=1-901419-03-7}} 2. ^{{cite web| url= http://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/station/info.aspx?StationCd=874| script-title=ja:各駅情報(新習志野駅)|trans-title=Station Information (Shin-Narashino Station)| publisher=East Japan Railway Company| location=Japan| language=Japanese| accessdate=September 2, 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web|publisher=Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society |url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm |title=This month in railroad history: March |date=March 24, 2006 |accessdate=24 March 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060417075629/http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm |archivedate=April 17, 2006 |deadurl=no |df=mdy }} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Green, Oliver|title=The London Underground - An Illustrated History|publisher=Ian Allan|year=1988|page=63|isbn=0-7110-1720-4}} 5. ^"Sante Fe-SP Merger Denied by ICC Vote". Pacific RailNews, September 1986, p. 4. 6. ^Koberstein, Paul (September 7, 1986). "Riders swamp light rail as buses go half-full and schedules go by the way". The Oregonian, p. A1. 7. ^{{cite journal|title=The Corkickle Brake|journal=Industrial Railway Record|volume=111|date=December 1987|pages=169–81}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=King, Peter|title=71000 Duke of Gloucester – the impossible dream|year=1987|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton|isbn=0-7110-1753-0}}
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