1959 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1959.
Contents
Events
January events
- January 4 - Passenger service resumes on the Strasburg Rail Road for tourists.
- January 5 - Foulridge railway station closes on the Midland Railway (originally the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway) in Lancashire.[1]
February events
- February 28 - The Eastern Region of British Railways closes most of the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.[2]
March events
- March 28 - The Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, the last interurban railroad in Canada, operates its last revenue train.
April events
- April 3 - Construction begins on Japanese National Railways’ Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Osaka and Tokyo.
- April 4 - Maine Central Railroad ends passenger service to Samoset destination hotel in Rockland, Maine.[3]
- SAFEGE test monorail built in France.[4]
June events
- June 9 - The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, interurban railway serving Chicago's western suburbs, ceases freight operations, thus bringing an end to all of the railroad's operations.
- June 15 - The Disneyland Monorail System built by Alweg opens, making it the first daily operating monorail system in the western hemisphere.
- June 21 - Soo Line 2719 hauls the last of Soo Line Railroad's steam locomotive-powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ladysmith, Wisconsin.[5]
July events
- July 1 - Colorado Railroad Museum opens in Golden.[6]
- July 14 - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 0-6-0 number 5244, class B-6sb, becomes the last steam locomotive to operate on the PRR.
- July 18 - The last steam locomotive runs on the Nickel Plate Road as a pair of 0-8-0 switchers are called out to cover a traffic surge.
- July 27 - Southern Pacific Company opens new embankment replacing Lucin Cutoff trestle across Great Salt Lake, Utah.[7]
August events
October events
- October 6 - The Carmelit, Haifa's underground funicular railway, opens.
- October 28 - The Canadian National Railway line between St. Felicien and Chibougamau, Quebec, opens.
December events
- December 1 - The Virginian Railway is merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
- December 29 - First section of Lisbon Metro (Metropolitano de Lisboa) opens in Lisbon, Portugal, first metro (subway) system in the country.
Unknown date events
- General Electric announces that it will begin manufacturing diesel locomotives on its own.
- ACF Industries completes the last passenger car that it is to build.
- The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway runs its last train, ending 62 years of service.
- Israel Railways officially withdraws all steam locomotives; the last, Baldwin-built Palestine Railways H class 4-6-0 no. 901, surviving in traffic into the following year.[8]
- Opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway encourages improved ice-breaking on the Saint Lawrence River and initiates declining winter freight volume on Canadian railways east of Montreal.
Births
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Deaths
August deaths
- August 26 - William Valentine Wood, President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1941-8 (born 1883).
References
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- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 30 and October 28, 2005.
