1915 in rail transport

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

Births

September births

  • September 11 – Carl Fallberg, cartoonist who created Fiddletown & Copperopolis (died 1996).[8]

December births

Deaths

May deaths

September deaths

References

  1. Smith, Cecil J. (2006). "This day in Monon history". Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
  2. Joy, David (2012). Engines that Bend: narrow gauge articulated locomotives. Southend: Atlantic Publishers. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-902827-23-0.
  3. Illinois Public Utilities Commission (1915). Statistical Report, Part III: Officers and Directors of Public Utilities. Springfield, Illinois: State of Illinois. p. 1210. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
  4. Thomas, John (1969). Gretna: Britain's Worst Railway Disaster (1915). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4645-8.
  5. Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved July 7, 2007.
  6. Van Zeller, Peter (December 2008). "100 years since the end of the 'Owd Ratty'". The Railway Magazine. 154 (1292): 39–40.
  7. Cotterell, Paul (1984). "Chapter 3". The Railways of Palestine and Israel. Abingdon, UK: Tourret Publishing. pp. 14–31. ISBN 0-905878-04-3.
  8. "Obituary". Trains Magazine. 57 (2): 18A. February 1997.
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