1968, 1969, 1970

Years in rail transport

1968 in rail transport 1969 in rail transport 1970 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 April events 1.4 May events 1.5 June events 1.6 September events 1.7 November events 1.8 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 May deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January – The PATCO Hi-Speedline, in southeastern Pennsylvania, opens.
• January 5 – Last trains over the Waverley Route from Edinburgh in Scotland to Carlisle in England.^[1]

[edit] February events

• February 16 – Căile Ferate Române, in Romania, completes its systemwide electrification project.

[edit] April events

• April 5 – The South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh in England, reopens as a preserved steam railway, the Dart Valley Railway.

[edit] May events

• May 5 – The Lewes-Uckfield (or Wealden Line) railway line is closed under British Rail and Richard Beeching's Beeching Axe in East Sussex, England.
• May 6 – The Chicago Transit Authority's Englewood 'L' service is extended to the new Ashland/63rd terminal.
• May – A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.

[edit] June events

• June – Seaboard Coast Line Railroad discontinues the Silver Comet passenger train service.

[edit] September events

• September 28 – The Dan Ryan rapid transit extension of the Chicago 'L' system is placed in operation between 17th and State Streets and 95th Street in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway. The new Dan Ryan Line was originally combined with the Lake Street 'L' to form the West-South route (Lake-Dan Ryan) providing through service between 95th Street and Harlem Avenue, Forest Park, using the first of the 2200-Series rapid transit cars (2201-2350) built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Dan Ryan Line now comprises the southern half of today's Red Line.

[edit] November events

• November 2 – Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, makes its final run.^[2]

[edit] Unknown date events

• ALCO ceases new diesel locomotive manufacturing.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division builds the most powerful and largest diesel locomotive to date, the EMD DDA40X.
• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway operates the last freight train on its subsidiary Grand Canyon Railway.^[3]

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] May deaths

• May 2 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950-1966, dies (b. 1901).

[edit] References