1943 in rail transport

A Hungarian steam locomotive in 1943.

Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1943.

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Events

January events

• January 1 – First Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST steamed, earliest of 377 built for war service to British Ministry of Supply order.<ref name="Tourret">Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 16 – First WD Austerity 2-8-0 handed over to British Ministry of Supply, earliest of 935 built for war service.<ref name="Tourret" />

April events

• April 2 – Yaga Station in 5-chōme, Yaga, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, reopens.

May events

• May 5 – Pullman, retooled from passenger car construction to work for World War II, launches its first ship built for the Navy, a PCE (patrol craft).
• After a year of revenue service, Union Pacific Railroad's M-10002 streamliner trainset is removed from service; its power car is separated from its unpowered cars and the components are reused elsewhere.

June events

• June 4 – Hyde railway accident, New Zealand: Train derails at speed in a curved cutting, 21 killed, 47 injured.
• June 21 – British saboteurs blow up the strategically significant railway viaduct at Asopos in Greece.

July events

• July 14 – Canadian National Railway opens Central Station in Montreal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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August events

• August 25 – Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operates its last regular narrow gauge train on the section between Leadville and Climax.<ref name="Rivanna">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• August 30 – The Lackawanna Limited wreck at Wayland, New York causes 29 deaths and injures 114 others.

September events

• September 6 – Frankford Junction train wreck, Seventy-nine people are killed when the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited derails due to a burned out journal at Frankford Junction, Pennsylvania.

October events

• October 4 - The last Maine narrow gauge (the Monson Railroad) discontinues service.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 17
  • Chicago's first rapid transit subway route, State Street subway (4.9 miles/7.9 km), opens for passenger service.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Completion of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) (Template:Convert) by the Empire of Japan to support its forces in the Burma campaign using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.

November events

• November 11 – Shin-Koyasu Station on what is now JR East's Keihin-Tōhoku Line in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan, is opened.

December events

• December 16 – Two Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains collide after a broken rail derails the first one, putting it in the path of the second. Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops.
• The first troop sleepers enter service on U.S. railroads.

Unknown date events

• The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America, opens for railroad service.
• After a few years of only producing diesel engines for the United States Navy during World War II, General Motors Electro-Motive Division returns to manufacturing railroad locomotives.
• The last PRR GG1 to be built is completed.
• Electrification between Limoges and Montauban on the SNCF in Vichy France completes an electrified rail route from Paris to the Mediterranean.

Births

September births

• September 7 – Chris Green, British railway manager.

Deaths

February deaths

• February 9 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (born 1877).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 11 – Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900–1905 (born 1859).

June deaths

• June 2 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (born 1853).

References

• Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines Template:Webarchive. Retrieved August 15, 2005.

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