This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1920.

Events

November events

• November - H.P.M. Beames succeeds Charles Bowen-Cooke as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway.

Unknown date events

• William Sproule succeeds Julius Krutschnitt as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This is Sproule's second term as president.

Births

Deaths

July deaths

• July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1849).`

Unknown date deaths

• Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (b. 1859).