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1975 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (264 words) |
 | This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975. |
| August 10 - British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region. |
| As a result Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies. |
| Transportation Series No. 11--State Rail Transportation Issues and Policies (13640 words) |
| This report places passenger, freight and rail safety issues into the state legislative context as an aid to state policymakers who are seeking to devise solutions for the problems facing their states and communities. |
| Although rail is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents at highway-railroad grade crossings remain a problem, as the March 1999 collision of a truck with an Amtrak train in Bourbonnais, Illinois, illustrates. |
| The North Carolina Department of Transportation reimburses Amtrak for 100 percent of the net operating expenses of the Piedmont and 100 percent of the expenses of the Carolinian between Rocky Mount (which is near the Virginia border) and Charlotte. |
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