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Years in rail transport
1929 in rail transport
1930 in rail transport
1931 in rail transport
Timeline of railway history
This article lists events related to
rail transport
that occurred in 1930.
Events
January events
January 1 – The
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway
,
Indiana, Columbus and Eastern
and the
Lima-Toledo Railroad
merge to form the
Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad
January 31 – Trains begin using the new elevated tracks and platform at
Toronto Union Station
.
[1]
February events
February 15 – The
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
operates the first
Taurus Express
between
Istanbul
and
Baghdad
, with road connection between
Nusaybin
and
Kirkuk
.
February 18 – The
Pullman Company
buys the
Osgood Bradley Car Company
, which has been making
trolley
and other transit cars since 1833.
February 24 – The
Standard Steel Car Company
is incorporated as a Pullman subsidiary.
March events
March 13–14 –
Blue Train Races
:
Woolf Barnato
driving his
Speed Six
Blue Train Bentley
saloon
races
Le Train Bleu
from
Cannes
. He is parked at his London club before the train arrives at
Calais
Gare Maritime.
March 29 – last scheduled train runs on the narrow gauge
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
.
[2]
March 30 –
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
inaugurates
The Sportsman
passenger service.
[3]
April events
April 21 – The
Turkestan–Siberia Railway
is completed.
May events
May 6 – The
Drammen Line
in Norway takes electric traction into use between
Drammen
and
Brakerøya
.
[4]
June events
June 1 – The
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
introduces the
Deccan Queen
express over its newly electrified line between Bombay (
Mumbai
) and Poonah (
Pune
).
June 16 – Hanwa Electronic Railway,
Tennoji Station of Osaka
to
Wakayama Station
route officially complete in
Japan
.(a predecessor of
JR Hanwa Line
)
[
citation needed
]
June 20 –
General Motors
purchases
Winton Engine
, a major supplier of
diesel locomotive
prime movers
.
June 25 – The
Glacier Express
first runs between
St. Moritz
and
Zermatt
in
Switzerland
following completion of the
metre gauge
link between
Brig
and
Visp
.
[5]
July events
July – The
Atlantic City Railroad
(a predecessor of the
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
) purchases the
Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad
.
July 8 – A demonstration
Bennie Railplane
monorail
line is opened over an existing railway line at
Milngavie
near Glasgow in Scotland.
August events
August 20 – The
Kururi Line
in
Japan
is
regauged
from
762 mm
(
2 ft 6 in
) to
1,067 mm
(
3 ft 6 in
).
October events
October 1 – Somu Railroad Line,
Ōmiya Station (Saitama)
via
Kasukabe
and
Kashiwa
to
Funabashi
route is officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of the
Tobu Urban Park Line
(Noda Line)).
[
citation needed
]
December events
December 18 –
Bombay Central station
opened by
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway
.
[6]
December 31 –
General Motors
buys
Electro-Motive Corporation
and combines it with
Winton Engine
to form
General Motors Electro-Motive Division
.
November events
Southern Pacific Railroad
opens the
Benicia–Martinez drawbridge
— it replaces the
Solano
, the largest rail ferryboat ever constructed.
Unknown date events
General American Transportation Corporation
assumes ownership of
Swift Refrigerator Line
.
Births
February births
February 3 –
Charles S. Roberts
, American railroad historian, is born (d. 2010).
Unknown date births
Robert Bandeen
, president of
Canadian National Railway
1974–1982.
Deaths
Main article:
Deaths in 1930
Further information:
Category:1930 deaths
References
^
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history"
.
Colin Churcher's Railway Pages
. 2005-08-16. Archived from
the original
on 2 February 2006
. Retrieved
2006-01-30
.
^
Stindt, Fred A. (1968). "Northwestern Pacific Narrow Gauge".
The Western Railroader
.
31
(346). Francis A. Guido: 16.
^
Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society.
"This month in railroad history: March"
.
Archived
from the original on 17 April 2006
. Retrieved
2006-03-29
.
^
"Railway Statistics 2008"
.
Norwegian National Rail Administration
. 2009. p. 34. Archived from
the original
(pdf)
on 2 March 2012
. Retrieved
28 April
2010
.
^
Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005).
Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt
(in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). p. 102.
ISBN
3-89610-057-2
.
^
Saxena, R. P. (2008).
"Indian Railway History Time Line"
. Archived from
the original
on 2012-02-29
. Retrieved
2009-12-23
.
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