September 27 in rail transport
- September 27 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1825 – The first steam-hauled passenger train service operates and carries up to 600 passengers, at the official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England.
* 1827 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, is born.
20th century
* 1923 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history. [http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt]
* 1972 – Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.
* 1993 – Amtrak's worst rail accident to date occurs in the Big Bayou Conot train disaster when the westbound "Sunset Limited" derails on a bridge in Alabama; the cause of the accident is found to be a collision between a river barge and one of the bridge's pilings knocking the rail out of alignment on the bridge.
* 1993 – The California Northern Railroad begins operations.
Births
* 1823 – Frederick H. Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879-1881, is born (d. 1890).
Deaths
* 1835 – Phineas Davis, pioneering steam locomotive builder.
* 1965 – William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 (b. 1876).
References
* Casper Star-Tribune (June 22 2005), " [http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt BP Amoco Timeline] ". Retrieved June 22 2005.
* Lustig, David (May 2005), "Renaissance in California", "Trains Magazine", p. 72-76.
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