| Years in rail transport |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1973.
Events
January events
- January 27 – MBTA purchases several rail lines in New England from Penn Central to form the basis of the new commuter system's network.
February events
- February 26 – Chessie System is incorporated to become the parent corporation of a combined B&O/C&O/WM railroad system.[1]
March events
- March 30 – Toronto's Yonge Subway is extended to York Mills station.[2]
May events
- May 21 – Passenger traffic begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Concord line, through the 3.1 mi (5.0 km) Berkeley Hills Tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, California beneath the Berkeley Hills.[3]
June events
- June 3 – The Norwegian State Railways open Lieråsen Tunnel on the Drammen Line between Asker and Lier (10.7 km (6.6 mi)).[4]
- June 22 – The EMD SDP40F diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.[5]
August events
- August 17 – The last DB Class E 40 leaves the gates of the Krupp factory in Essen.
September events
- September 28 – Amtrak's Turboliners make their first run on the Chicago–St Louis corridor.[6]
November events
- November 5 – Bay Area Rapid Transit Peninsula service starts between Downtown San Francisco and Daly City.[3]
- November 7 – Frontier Series Canadian ten-dollar note introduced depicting the Canadian passenger train hauled by an EMD F40PH diesel-electric locomotive.
December events
- December 19 – The Ealing rail crash occurred when an express train from London Paddington to Oxford derails at speed between Ealing Broadway and West Ealing. Ten passengers are killed and 94 injured
Unknown date events
- The isolated coal hauler, the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad, opens in Northern Arizona, the world's first line to use 50,000 V overhead line power.
- Transcameroon Railway extended to N'Gaoundéré.
- John W. Barriger III becomes president of the Boston and Maine Railroad.[7]
References
- ^ "Railroad Fallen Flags: C". Classic Trains. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. 2006-06-26. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ City of Toronto (2006). "Toronto Transit Commission – History". Archived from the original on 29 March 2006. Retrieved 2006-03-29.
- ^ a b "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
- ^ Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- ^ Ingles, J. David (December 1975). "The power behind the pointless arrow". Trains. 36 (2): 23.
- ^ Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3.
- ^ "John W. Barriger; Rail historian and railfan". Archived from the original on 2005-03-01. Retrieved 2005-02-22.