1908 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1908.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 25 – The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad starts revenue service between Hoboken, New Jersey and 19th Street, Manhattan.[1]
[edit] March events
- March 25 – The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad extends passenger service from its existing Washington-Annapolis route to Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
- March 30 – Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway purchases the Columbia Railway and Navigation Company.[3]
[edit] April events
- April 20 – A rear-end collision in Melbourne, Australia, called the Sunshine train disaster, kills 44 and injures around 400.
[edit] May events
- May 17 – Trains operating through the St. Clair Tunnel under the St. Clair River between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan, begin using electric locomotives instead of steam locomotives.[4]
[edit] June events
- June 23 – The Denver & Interurban begins operations using some electrified lines of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf. The UPD&G and the D&I are both owned by the Colorado and Southern Railway.[5]
- June 30 – Last day steam trains can operate south of the Harlem River in New York City.
[edit] July events
- July 1 – Public inauguration of Midland Railway Lancaster–Morecambe–Heysham electrification system (6.6 kV A.C. at 25 Hz), the first overhead wire scheme on a passenger railway in England.
- July 8 – Construction begins on the Belt Line Railway of Toronto in Hull, Ontario.[6]
- July 10 – Thamshavnbanen, the first electrified railway in Norway, opens.[7]
- July 14 – Shinpei Goto steps down as president of the South Manchuria Railway.
[edit] August events
- August 7 – New Zealand Railways runs first through train on North Island main trunk line between Wellington and Auckland (680 km (423 mi)).[8]
[edit] September events
- September 1 – Hejaz Railway opens from Damascus, Syria, to Medina, Saudi Arabia, on the Arabian Peninsula.[9]
[edit] November events
- November 1 – The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway introduces the Southern Belle passenger train between London and Brighton.[10][11][12]
- November - Following experiments, the Great Western Railway of England begins to introduce Automatic Train Control on its main lines.[13]
[edit] December events
- December 18 – Great Northern Railway (U.S.) completes construction of the line between Great Falls and Billings, Montana.[14]
- December 19 – Korekimi Nakamura begins his term as the second president of South Manchuria Railway.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Soo Line acquires a majority interest in the Wisconsin Central Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] Unknown date births
- John Francis Nash, vice president of operations for New York Central and president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and Lehigh Valley Railroad (d. 2004).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January deaths
- January 14 – Matthias N. Forney, American steam locomotive manufacturer (b. 1835).[15][16]
[edit] June deaths
- June 3 – Robert Gillespie Reid, builder of many Canadian railway bridges as well as the Newfoundland Railway (d. 1842).
[edit] References
- ^ Cudahy, Brian J. (2002). Rails Under the Mighty Hudson. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2189-X.
- ^ Washington D.C. Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "Washington, D.C. Railroad History". http://www.dcnrhs.org/dc_rail_history.htm. Retrieved on March 24 2006.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "This month in railroad history: March". http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm. Retrieved on 29 March 2006.
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. March 17, 2006. http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm. Retrieved on May 17 2006.
- ^ Jones, William C.; Holley, Noel T. (1986). The Kite Route: story of the Denver & Interurban Railroad. Boulder, Co.: Pruett. ISBN 0871087219.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history". http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm. Retrieved on July 7 2005.
- ^ Norsk Jernbaneklubb (1994) (in Norwegian). Banedata '94. ISBN 8290286155.
- ^ "The North Island main trunk line". New Zealand History online. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. http://www.webcitation.org/5gp2bJDCj. Retrieved on May 13 2009.
- ^ Tourret, R. (1989). Hedjaz Railway. Abingdon: Tourret Publishing. ISBN 0-905878-05-1.
- ^ Hill, Keith (February 2005). "Brighton's Belle Époque". BackTrack 19 (2): p 70–79.
- ^ Winkworth, D. W. (1988). Southern Titled Trains. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-9179-8.
- ^ Longman, Jon (December 2008). "From The Railway Magazine archives". The Railway Magazine 154 (1,292): p 40.
- ^ MacDermot, E. T. (1964). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II, 1863-1921. London: Ian Allan.
- ^ Railroads of Montana - Lewiston newspaper index - Great Northern Railway. http://www.railroads-of-montana.com/lewistown_newspaper_index_greatnorthernrailway.htm.
- ^ "Brief biographies of mechanical engineers". http://www.steamindex.com/people/engrs.htm. Retrieved on February 9 2004.
- ^ White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
