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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1952.

Events

January events

• January 13 - Union Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco is stalled in snow on Donner Pass. The train's passengers remain stranded in the train until January 16.

April events

• April 14 - Indian Railways divisional organisation completed by formation of the Eastern Railway, created by amalgamating three lower divisions of the East Indian Railway (Howrah, Asansol and Danapur), the entire Bengal Nagpur Railway and the Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway; the Northern Railway, created from remaining divisions of the EIR, the Eastern Punjab Railway and others; and the North Eastern Railway created by merger of the Oudh and Tirhut Railway and the Assam Railway.^[1][2][3]

July events

• July 6 - The last tram (streetcar) runs in London, England.
• July 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hits just north of Tehachapi, California. Tunnels 3 through 8 are all damaged, and no traffic moves on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Tehachapi Loop for 25 days.

August events

• August 2 - The Buffalo-Exchange Street Station opens.

September events

• September 6 - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad car ferry Badger is launched. It is the last coal-fired, passenger-carrying steamship built in the United States, and it is still in use for automobile travel.

October events

• October 8 - Three trains are involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England, a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
• October 17 - British Railways initiates trial of a new Automatic Warning System (Automatic Train Control).^[4]

November events

• November 1 - The Pacific Great Eastern Railway opens its branch from Quesnel, British Columbia, to a nearby junction with the Canadian National Railway.

December events

• December 1 - Canadian Pacific Railway ushers in the modern intermodal freight transport era with the introduction of Trailer On Flat Car service.

Unknown date events

• Donald Russell takes over as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Births

Deaths

References

1. ^ "Sealdah division-Engineering details". The Eastern Railway, Sealdah division. http://www.easternrailwaysealdah.gov.in/WebForm/FrameContent/Engineering.html.  
2. ^ "Chapter 1 - Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background". Ministry of Railways, India. http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecode/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1_Data.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-23.  
3. ^ Saxena, R. P. (2008). "Indian Railway History Time Line". http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-23.  
4. ^ Hall, Stanley (2000). The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, vol. 1: Broad Survey. York: Friends of the National Railway Museum. ISBN 1-872826-12-1.