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During this period, the population of East St. Louis nearly doubled each decade. Amidst this growth, the East St. Louis and Suburban grew by acquiring shorter interurban lines. The Illinois Traction System reached St. Louis via trackage rights on the East St. Louis and Suburban over the Eads Bridge until the completion of the McKinley Bridge.
October 13 – United Kingdom – Longmoor Military Railway, Hampshire, United Kingdom: A passenger train hauled by Class 8F 2-8-0 WD512 is involved in a head-on collision with a permanent-way train hauled by 0-6-0 diesel shunter WD877 Bari between Weaversdown Halt and Liss Forest Road stations. Six soldiers are killed and eight are injured. [90]
Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
Most of the train falls 100 feet (30 m); 22 passengers are killed. The bomber, Szilveszter Matuska, pretends to be a victim and sues the railway, but police checking his story become suspicious. Eventually he is given a death sentence, which is then commuted. [6] [11] September 18 – China,Liaoning,Mukden – Mukden Incident. [12] [13] [14]
The original railway network for the Sydney CBD planned by John Bradfield. The Eastern Suburbs line is drawn in blue. The Eastern Suburbs Railway was a part of engineer Dr John Bradfield's scheme for Sydney's railways (the Bradfield Scheme). The alignment and profile for the line was set in 1926 and construction on the railway was started by ...
This is the deadliest railway accident in British history, with 226 fatalities and 246 people injured. August 14 – United Kingdom – Weedon rail crash : Express train derails after the track on the up main line is forced out of alignment by a detached coupling rod from a passing locomotive heading a down express. 10 passengers killed, 21 ...
The grave of Elmer E. Ellsworth, located in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville, NY Photographs show Colonel Elmer Ellsworth of Field and Staff, 11th New York Infantry Regiment; Marshall House at the corner of King and Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia, the scene of the assassination of Col. Ellsworth on May 24, 1861; and Lieutenant Francis Brownell of Co.
Henry Cyril Casserley [1] (12 June 1903 – 16 December 1991) [2] was a British railway photographer. His prolific work in the 1920s and 1930s, the result of travelling to remote corners of the railway network in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has provided subsequent generations with a comprehensive source of illustrations for books and magazines.