July 31 –Boston and Maine Railroad, 2 men struck on track 16 inbound to Wakefield. Conductor Damian Soto is suspended 30 days without pay and forced to retake his conductor license.
August 11 – In England, the Tyne and Wear Metro opens for full public service with the first section from Haymarket to Tynemouth via South Gosforth and Four Lane Ends, the first British conversion from heavy to light rail.[8][pageneeded]
December – Promulgation of the JNR reconstruction act in a bid for the company to straighten out insolvency. As a result, 83 rural lines running in deficit were assigned to three phases of either a transfer to third-sector ownership or outright closure and replacement by bus services.[12]
The last train, controlled by Conrail, operates on New York City's former New York Central "High Line" on the West Side. It is reported to have hauled three boxcars of frozen poultry.
↑ Feather River Rail Society/Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society (2002). "Western Pacific History". Archived from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
↑ Perles, Anthony (1981). The People's Railway: The History of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p.250. ISBN0-916374-42-4.
↑ "東京都交通局,交通局について,都営地下鉄"[History of the Transportation Bureau]. kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
1 2 3 Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6thed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN0-85112-707-X.
↑ Werner, George C. "Burlington System". The Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
↑ Imashiro, Mitsuhide; Ishikawa, Tetsujiro (2012). The Privatisation of Japanese National Railways: Railway Management, Market and Policy. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp.68, 88–90. ISBN9781780939278.
↑ L. Stanley Crane (born in Cincinnati, 1915) raised in Washington, lived in McLean before moving to Philadelphia in 1981. He began his career with Southern Railway after graduating from The George Washington University with a chemical engineering degree in 1938. He worked for the railroad, except for a stint from 1959 to 1961 with the Pennsylvania Railroad, until reaching the company's mandatory retirement age in 1980. Crane went to Conrail in 1981 after a distinguished career that had seen him rise to the position of CEO at the Southern Railway. He died of pneumonia on July 15, 2003 at a hospice in Boynton Beach, Fla.
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