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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 19.
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Events
20th century
- 1905 – New Haven Railroad completes the property acquisition of Greenwich Tramway, Suffield Street Railway and Branford Lighting and Water Company.[1]
- 1986 – Two high-speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash (pictured); the driver of one of the two trains was the only fatality of this accident.
- 1997 – In the Southall rail crash, the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator passes a red signal (SPAD) and collides with a freight train leaving its depot, shortly before 1320 local time.
Births
- 1810 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–80, is born (d. 1892).
- 1882 – Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of Southern Railway in Great Britain 1937–48, is born (d. 1970).
- 1952 – George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998–2002, executive director of NJ Transit 2002–07, is born (d. 2007).
References
- Government Printing Office (1914). New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.: Evidence Taken Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Vol. II. pp. 2366–2374, 2394–2397 – via Google Books.
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