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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 13.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1842 – Queen Victoria made her first journey by rail (Slough to Paddington).
20th century edit
- 1920 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, D.C.
- 1928 – The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
- 1941 – The Hauerseter–Gardermoen Line in Norway is opened by the Luftwaffe during the German occupation of Norway.[1]
- 1942 – Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City.
- 1931 – Switzerland's Brienz Rothorn Bahn reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I.
- 1998 – Kintetsu in Japan begins driver-only operation on the Suzuka Line.
21st century edit
- 2005 – CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central "High Line" elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.
Births edit
Deaths edit
- 1867 – Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels, dies (b. 1789).
References edit
- ^ Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1994). Glemte spor: boken om sidebanenes tragiske liv (in Norwegian). Oslo: Baneforlaget. p. 76. ISBN 82-91448-00-0.