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Events

January events

• January 1 – The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Southern Belle is re-equipped with electric multiple unit cars to replace steam power.

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February events

• February 1 – The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway is incorporated and assumes all operations of the San Diego and Arizona Railway.

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May events

• May 15 – Deutsche Reichsbahn put the Fliegener Hamburger Multiple unit into service. It shortens the distance of 286 km between Hamburg main station and Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof to 138 minutes. The average speed was 124 km/h.

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June events

• June 25 – Canadian Pacific Railway discontinues the use of the Imperial Limited name, although the trains continue to run designated now by train numbers only.

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July events

• July 15 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

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August events

• August 15 -The first broadcast of the passing “Pan American” on radio station WSM. This will become a daily feature, popularizing “train” rhythms in country music, a Hank Williams song and making celebrities out of the Louisville & Nashville crews.

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October events

• October 11 - London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4-6-0 Royal Scot number 6152 (of the LMS Royal Scot Class locomotives) departs the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, bound for Vancouver, British Columbia.

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). ... The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... In the Whyte notation, a 4-6-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that has a two-axle leading truck followed by three driving axles. ... Unrebuilt 6115 Scots Guardsman starred in the film Night Mail. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles, and the largest inland city in the country. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Unknown date events

• Matthew S. Sloan becomes president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (known as the MKT, or Katy) began as the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch (unrelated to the Union Pacific Railroad) in 1865. ...

Births

Deaths

References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 11, 2005.
• Hill, Keith (February 2005), "Brighton's Belle Époque", BackTrack 19 (2), 70-79.
• Katy Railroad Historical Society, Katy Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved February 9, 2005