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June 3 – Remaining Second class accommodation on British Railways
trains (by now surviving only on Southern Region
boat trains) is abolished and Third class redesignated Second
class.
July 27 – The last two Chesapeake and Ohio Railway2-6-6-6 “Alleghenies” are
taken off standby status. The last revenue run had been made about
a month earlier.
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