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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]
A misunderstanding between two traffic controllers led to the head-on collision of two trains of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, a rack-railway, within a tunnel. Vilseck level crossing accidents [12] 22 June 2001 4+3 16+19 At a level crossing in Dillingen, a train crashed into a car and derailed. The 4 people in the car died and 16 people on ...
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Suburban Rail Loop East (SRL East) is a rapid transit underground rail project currently under construction in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It involves constructing an orbital rail line from Cheltenham in the south-eastern suburbs to Box Hill in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne via Clayton , Monash University , Glen Waverley and Burwood .
August 20 – San Diego's Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) purchases the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company in restored condition for $18.1 million. August 20 – The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
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]
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 ...