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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.
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Events
February events
- February 28 - Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground, in which a train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43 people at the scene.[1]
March events
- March 10 - Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka. Travel time between the two cities is reduced 2 hours 30 minutes, and travel time from Fukuoka to Tokyo is reduced to 5 hours.
April events
- April 1 - The second American Freedom Train tour begins, powered by newly restored Southern Pacific 4449, in Wilmington, Delaware. See also American Freedom Train - 1975-76 station stops.
June events
- June 6 - An overnight northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, does not receive warning of a temporary speed restriction resulting in the Nuneaton rail crash.
- June 8 - Two trains collide on a single-track stretch between Lenggries and Munich due to a dispatcher error. 41 die and 122 are injured.
August events
- August 10 - British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region.
September events
- September 27 - Official opening of the National Railway Museum in York, England.
December events
- December 2 - A train highjack takes place at the village of Wijster, the Netherlands. Activists wanted to endorse the self proclaimed Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands. Hostages Hans Braam, Leo Bulter and Bert Bierling were shot. The activists surrendered December 14 1975.
Unknown date events
- The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad files its third and final bankruptcy.
- As a result of the Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies.[2]
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ Left, Sarah. "Key dates in Britain's railway history", The Guardian Unlimited, 15 January 2002.
- ^ National Transportation Safety Board (March 15 2005). New NTSB publication examines 30-year history of transportation safety improvements. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
