1919 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1919.
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Events
March events
- March 5 – Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April events
- April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.
May events
- May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban railways in Melbourne, Australia, with first train from Flinders Street station to Sandringham and Essendon.
September events
- September 27–October 6 – Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
October events
- October 17 – Madrid Metro opens.
- October 20 – The metre-gauge railway from La Paz (Bolivia) to Cumbre opens.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
November events
- November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.<ref name=Hanft>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Dodge>Template:Cite book</ref>
December events
- December 1
- The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony.<ref name=Hanft /><ref name=Dodge />
- The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
- December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is Template:Convert long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at Template:Convert.<ref>Pont de Québec timeline Template:Webarchive (in French)</ref>
- December 20 – Onawa train wreck: A collision on the International Railway of Maine kills 23 people.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown date events
- Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for antitrust reasons.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.
Births
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Deaths
February deaths
- February 23 - Guy Calthrop, general manager of London and North Western Railway, previously of Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (born 1870).
April deaths
- April 24 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (born 1861).
August deaths
- August 3 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (born 1840).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (born 1835).
October deaths
- October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (born 1837).