1915 in rail transport explained
Events
January events
March events
April events
May events
- May 8 – Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland.
- May 22 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 226 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at a busy junction.[4] [5]
June events
August events
September events
October events
November events
December events
Unknown date events
- First Russian locomotive class Ye 2-10-0s built in North America. By the end of World War II, more than three thousand will have been built to the same basic design.
Births
September births
- September 11 – Carl Fallberg, cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis (died 1996).[8]
December births
Deaths
May deaths
September deaths
References
Notes and References
- Web site: This day in Monon history. Smith. Cecil J.. Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society. 2006. March 15, 2007. https://archive.today/20120804145337/http://www.monon.org/tdimh.html. August 4, 2012. live.
- Book: Joy, David. Engines that Bend: narrow gauge articulated locomotives. Southend. Atlantic Publishers. 2012. 978-1-902827-23-0. 20.
- Book: Statistical Report, Part III: Officers and Directors of Public Utilities. Illinois Public Utilities Commission. 1915. Springfield, Illinois. State of Illinois. 1210. December 10, 2013.
- Book: Thomas, John. 1969. Gretna: Britain's Worst Railway Disaster (1915). David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 0-7153-4645-8.
- News: Left. Sarah. Key dates in Britain's railway history. The Guardian Unlimited. January 15, 2002. July 7, 2007.
- The Railway Magazine. 100 years since the end of the 'Owd Ratty'. 39–40. Van Zeller. Peter . 154. 1292 . December 2008.
- Book: Cotterell, Paul. The Railways of Palestine and Israel. Tourret Publishing. Abingdon, UK. 0-905878-04-3. 1984. Chapter 3. 14–31.
- February 1997. Obituary. Trains Magazine. 57. 2. 18A.