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词条 1917 in rail transport
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  1. Events

     January events  February events  March events   April events   May events   July events    September    October events    November events   December events  Unknown date events 

  2. Births

      Unknown date births  

  3. Deaths

     October deaths 

  4. References

{{Year in rail transport|prev=1916|curr=1917|next=1918|decade=1910}}

Events

January events

  • January 3 - The Ratho rail crash in Scotland kills 12 people.

February events

  • February 27 - The Milwaukee Road completes the electrification of its {{convert|440|mi|km}} line from Harlowton, Montana, to Avery, Idaho.

March events

  • March 9 - Official opening of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.
  • March 12 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is reincorporated as the Pere Marquette Railway.
  • March 19 - The United States Supreme Court upholds the eight-hour workday for railroads.

April events

  • April 3–16 (NS) - V. I. Lenin journeys from Switzerland across Germany by so-called “sealed train”, eventually arriving to a tumultuous reception at Finland Station in Petrograd to play a leading role in the Russian Revolution.[1]
  • April 21 - Colorado Midland declares bankruptcy for the second and final time.

May events

  • May 9 - Completion of the 784 km-long railway line linking the port of Djibouti in French Somaliland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

July events

  • July 31
    • The Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway opens the Sciotoville Bridge across the Ohio River in the United States to rail traffic. It has a continuous truss across two 775-foot (236 m) spans, the world's longest until 1945.[2]
    • Simbei Kunisawa succeeds Yujiro Nakamura as president of South Manchuria Railway.

September

  • September 24 - The Bere Ferrers rail accident in England kills 10 New Zealand soldiers.

October events

  • October – First North British Railway C Class steam locomotives are allocated from Scotland for loan to the British Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Division on the Western Front (World War I).
  • October 22 – Opening of Trans-Australian Railway, 1051.7 miles (1692.6 km) of standard gauge between Port Augusta in South Australia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia (heads of steel meet on 17 October).[3][4][5] In crossing of the Nullarbor Plain the line runs for 309 miles (497 km) without a curve, the world’s longest railway straight.
  • October 23 - The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal.[6][7]

November events

  • November 1 – Takatoku station, now known as Shin-Takatoku Station on Tobu Railway's Kinugawa Line in Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, is opened.[8]

December events

  • December 3 - The longest cantilever bridge in the world, Canadian National Railway's Quebec Bridge across the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City, opens for rail traffic[9] after nearly 20 years of planning and construction including two partial collapses.
  • December 12 - Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment, on the Culoz–Modane railway in the French Alps, a grossly overloaded troop train jumps the tracks near the entrance of the station at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, after running away down a steep gradient from the entrance to the Fréjus Rail Tunnel due to inadequate brake power. At least 543 are killed, hundreds more are injured by the official count; the actual count is assumed to be considerably higher. Until 1981 this was the worst train wreck in history.[10]
  • December 26 - United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to nationalize American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.
  • December 28 - The United States Railroad Administration officially takes control of American railroads.

Unknown date events

  • The Tanana Valley Railroad in Fairbanks, Alaska (a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad) enters receivership.
  • The Arcade and Attica Railroad is incorporated.
  • Estación Constitución in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens.
  • Russia's Railway Worker Day national holiday, established in 1886, is abolished under Bolshevik rule.[11]

Births

Unknown date births

  • John Shedd Reed, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1967-1986 (died 2008).

Deaths

October deaths

  • October 2 - William Sykes, English railway signalling engineer (born 1840).[12]

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=Moorehead, Alan|title=The Russian Revolution|location=New York|publisher=Harper|year=1958|pages=183–187}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.minford.k12.oh.us/mhs/history/PortsmouthHistory/SciotovilleRRBridge/Jan2004article.htm |title=Colossus on the Ohio |work=Portsmouth Daily Times |date=2004-01-11 |accessdate=2016-10-05 |first=William D. |last=Middletown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311235551/http://www.minford.k12.oh.us/mhs/history/PortsmouthHistory/SciotovilleRRBridge/Jan2004article.htm |archivedate=2007-03-11 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=The Golden Jubilee of the Trans Australian Railway|author=Chambers, T.F. |journal=Australian Railway History |pages=267–75 |date=November 1968}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Burke|first=David|year=1991|title=Road through the Wilderness: the story of the transcontinental railway, the first great work of Australia’s federation|location=Kensington|publisher=New South Wales University Press|isbn=0-86840-140-4}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Ferneyhough|first=Frank|title=The History of Railways in Britain|location=Reading|publisher=Osprey|year=1975|isbn=0-85045-060-8}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |title=Significant dates in Canadian railway history |work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages |date=2006-09-15 |accessdate=2006-10-23 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023182151/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archivedate=23 October 2006 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
7. ^{{cite press release|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/23/c7258.html|title=Historic Anniversary for the Railway Association of Canada|date=2007-10-23|accessdate=2007-10-23|publisher=Railway Association of Canada}}
8. ^{{cite book| last=Terada| first=Hirokazu| title=データブック日本の私鉄|trans-title=Databook: Japan's Private Railways| publisher=Neko Publishing| date=July 2002| location=Japan| page=199| isbn=4-87366-874-3}}
9. ^{{cite journal|last=Middleton|first=William D. |title=Quebec lights up its big bridge|journal=Trains|pages=16–17 |date=February 2002}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=Modane, France (1917)|publisher=Danger Ahead!|url=http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/modane/home.html|accessdate=2009-02-24}}
11. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10684207&PageNum=0|title=Railway Worker Day marked in Russia|date=2006-08-06|accessdate=2006-08-07|publisher=ITAR-TASS}}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
12. ^{{cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9|authorlink=John Marshall (railway historian)}}
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