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- Events January events April events May events June events July events August events September events October events November events December events Unknown date events
- Births September births
- Deaths February deaths June deaths
- References
{{Year in rail transport|prev=1942|curr=1943|next=1944|decade=1940}}EventsJanuary events- January 1 – First Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST steamed, earliest of 377 built for war service to British Ministry of Supply order.[1]
- January 16 – First WD Austerity 2-8-0 handed over to British Ministry of Supply, earliest of 935 built for war service.[1]
April events - April 2 – Yaga Station in 5-chōme, Yaga, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, reopens.
May events- May 5 – Pullman, retooled from passenger car construction to work for World War II, launches its first ship built for the Navy, a PCE (patrol craft).
- After a year of revenue service, Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from service; its power car is separated from its unpowered cars and the components are reused elsewhere.
June events- June 4 – Hyde railway accident, New Zealand: Train derails at speed in a curved cutting, 21 killed, 47 injured.
- June 21 – British saboteurs blow up the strategically significant railway viaduct at Asopos in Greece.
July events - July 14 – Canadian National Railway opens Central Station in Montreal.[2]
August events - August 25 – Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operates its last regular narrow gauge train on the section between Leadville and Climax.[3]
September events- September 6 – Frankford Junction train wreck, Seventy-nine people are killed when the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited derails due to a burned out journal at Frankford Junction, Pennsylvania.
October events- October 4 - The last Maine narrow gauge (the Monson Railroad) discontinues service.[4]
- October 17
- Chicago's first rapid transit subway route, Clybourn-Division-State Subway (4.9 miles/7.9 km), opens for passenger service.[5] The route extended between Armitage Avenue on the North Side 'L' and 16th Street on the South Side 'L' with stations at North/Clybourn, Clark/Division, Chicago/State, Grand/State, Lake-Van Buren/State, Harrison/State, and Roosevelt/State. It contains one of the world's longest underground station platforms – {{convert|3300|ft|m}} long.
- Completion of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) ({{convert|415|km|mi|abbr=on}}) by the Empire of Japan to support its forces in the Burma campaign using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.
November events - November 11 – Shin-Koyasu Station on what is now JR East's Keihin-Tōhoku Line in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan, is opened.
December events- December 16 – Two Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains collide after a broken rail derails the first one, putting it in the path of the second. Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops.
- The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads.
Unknown date events- The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America, opens for railroad service.
- After a few years of only producing diesel engines for the United States Navy during World War II, General Motors Electro-Motive Division returns to manufacturing railroad locomotives.
- The last PRR GG1 to be built is completed.
- Electrification between Limoges and Montauban on the SNCF in Vichy France completes an electrified rail route from Paris to the Mediterranean.
BirthsSeptember births- September 7 – Chris Green, British railway manager.
Deaths February deaths - February 9 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (born 1877).[6]
- February 11 – Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900–1905 (born 1859).
June deaths - June 2 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (born 1853).
References - Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
1. ^1 {{cite book|author=Tourret, R.|title=War Department Locomotives|publisher=Tourret|location=Abingdon|year=1976|series=Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War, Book 1|isbn=0-905878-00-0}}
2. ^{{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=2006-03-17 |accessdate=2006-07-14 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708083826/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archivedate=8 July 2006 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
3. ^{{cite web| url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histaug.htm| author=Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society| title=This Month in Railroad History: August| year=2005| accessdate=2006-08-25}}
4. ^{{cite book| title=Two Feet to the Quarries |author=Jones, Robert C. |publisher=Evergreen Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-9667264-0-5 |page=105}}
5. ^{{cite web|last=Graham|first=Garfield|title=State Street subway|url=http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/state_subway.html|work=Chicago L|publisher=chicago-l.org|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}
6. ^{{cite book| title=The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad| author=Robert E. Mohowski| year=2003| publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press| isbn=0-8018-7222-7 }}
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