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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 27.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1825 – The first steam-hauled passenger train service operates and carries up to 600 passengers, at the official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England.
- 1827 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, is born.
20th century edit
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- 1903 – The Wreck of the Old 97 occurs in which Southern Railway's Fast Mail train number 97 careens off a bridge near Danville, Virginia.[1][2]
- 1923 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history.[3]
- 1972 – Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.
- 1993
- Amtrak's worst rail accident to date occurs in the Big Bayou Canot rail accident when the westbound Sunset Limited derails on a bridge in Alabama; the cause of the accident is found to be a collision between a river barge and one of the bridge's pilings knocking the rail out of alignment on the bridge.
- The California Northern Railroad begins operations.
- Shin Seibijō Station, on the Tokyo Monorail in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, is opened.[4]
- 1999 – After departing from England on September 17 then traveling 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi), the Kosovo Train for Life arrives in Pristina, Kosovo, with a trainload of humanitarian aid.[5][6][7]
Births edit
- 1823 – Frederick H. Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879-1881, is born (d. 1890).
Deaths edit
- 1835 – Phineas Davis, pioneering steam locomotive builder.
- 1965 – William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 (b. 1876).
References edit
- ^ "Many People Killed". The Anglo-Saxon. Rockingham, NC. October 1, 1903. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Nine Are Killed". The Topeka State Journal. Topeka, KS. September 28, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "BP Amoco Timeline". Casper Star-Tribune. June 22, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2005.
- ^ Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 213. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
- ^ Flowers, Andy (4 January 2001). "Class 20s to Kosovo!". Archived from the original on 19 February 2001.
- ^ "Kosovo aid train 'held to ransom'". BBC News Online. 26 September 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Kosovo aid train gets through". BBC News Online. 27 September 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- Lustig, David (May 2005), "Renaissance in California", Trains Magazine, p. 72-76.