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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.
Victims of a death march (via train) from Buchenwald to Dachau, 29 April 1945 German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death (Volary, Czechoslovakia) 1945. The largest [5] and the most notorious of the death
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
February 26 – United States – A Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train is derailed at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, destroying the railway station there. [3] March 7 – United Kingdom – An overnight express passenger train overruns danger signals in fog and collides with the rear of a mineral train 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (4.4 km) south west of ...
Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved November 8, 2005. Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 29, 2005. Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History ...
August 5 – United Kingdom – A London, Midland and Scottish Railway express passenger train derails at Saltcoats, Ayrshire when vandals place rocks on the line. Four people are killed. [83] August 5 – United Kingdom – Workmen building a new military camp crossing the Southern Railway line at Bramshot Halt are struck by an express train ...
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 ...