March 28 & 29 -
SNCF in
France sets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using 1800/2000V dc electric traction. The track is severely damaged by the passage of the train.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
April events
April –
Ferrovias Central of
Peru opens a spur line from La Cima to Volcán Mine, reaching an (at this time) world record altitude of 4830 m (15,848 ft).[10]
May 12 -
Manhattan's last
elevated railroad becomes history as the NYCTA cuts back the Third Avenue El from Chatham Square in Lower Manhattan to 149th Street, Bronx.
August 31 - The
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad begins experiments with
air conditioning on its
subway cars, a technology that the
New York City Subway system declared impractical before then.[15] This experiment results in the first successful production application of air conditioning in a rapid transit car, 50 cars (20 owned by H&M, 30 by H&M parent
PRR) built by
St. Louis Car Company in 1958.
^Mills, John M. (1977). Traction on The Grand: The Story of Electric Railways along Ontario's Grand River Valley. Railfare Enterprises. p. 25.
ISBN0-919130-27-5.
^"May 22: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History". Metro Primary Resources. Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Museum and Archive. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^Contrary to his later recollection of the event. Burnett, Archie, ed. (2012). The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin. London: Faber. p. 411.
ISBN978-0-571-24006-7.
^Keller, G. P. (1954). "The Rimutaka Deviation". New Zealand Engineering. 9: 399–420.
^Cameron, Walter Norman (1976). A Line of Railway: the Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society.
ISBN0-908573-00-6.
^Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing.
ISBN0-85112-707-X.
March 28 & 29 -
SNCF in
France sets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using 1800/2000V dc electric traction. The track is severely damaged by the passage of the train.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
April events
April –
Ferrovias Central of
Peru opens a spur line from La Cima to Volcán Mine, reaching an (at this time) world record altitude of 4830 m (15,848 ft).[10]
May 12 -
Manhattan's last
elevated railroad becomes history as the NYCTA cuts back the Third Avenue El from Chatham Square in Lower Manhattan to 149th Street, Bronx.
August 31 - The
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad begins experiments with
air conditioning on its
subway cars, a technology that the
New York City Subway system declared impractical before then.[15] This experiment results in the first successful production application of air conditioning in a rapid transit car, 50 cars (20 owned by H&M, 30 by H&M parent
PRR) built by
St. Louis Car Company in 1958.
^Mills, John M. (1977). Traction on The Grand: The Story of Electric Railways along Ontario's Grand River Valley. Railfare Enterprises. p. 25.
ISBN0-919130-27-5.
^"May 22: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History". Metro Primary Resources. Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Museum and Archive. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^Contrary to his later recollection of the event. Burnett, Archie, ed. (2012). The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin. London: Faber. p. 411.
ISBN978-0-571-24006-7.
^Keller, G. P. (1954). "The Rimutaka Deviation". New Zealand Engineering. 9: 399–420.
^Cameron, Walter Norman (1976). A Line of Railway: the Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society.
ISBN0-908573-00-6.
^Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing.
ISBN0-85112-707-X.