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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1901.

Events

January events

January 3 – The St. Louis Southwestern Railway purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in Arkansas.^[1]

February events

February – The Canadian Locomotive Company is formed from the assets of the bankrupt Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
February 2 – The body of Queen Victoria is conveyed by the London & South Western, London, Brighton & South Coast and Great Western Railways from Gosport via London to Windsor, England for her funeral.^[2]

March events

March 1 – First section of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway opens to the public.^[3]

April events

April 1 – The West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is opened throughout to Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.^[4]
April 1 – Atlantic Coast Line Railroad acquires the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in North Carolina.
April 11 – The Ōu South Line in Japan opens between Yonezawa and Yamagata.

May events

May
- Frederick D. Underwood succeeds Eben B. Thomas as president of the Erie Railroad.^[5]
- Gold Coast Government Railway opens from Sekondi on the coast to Tarkwa.
May 27 – Sanyo Railroad Line, Kobe to Bakan (Shimonoseki Station renamed from June 1902) route officially completed in Japan (as predecessor of JR Sanyo Line).^[6]

June events

June – First section of Gold Coast Railway (3 ft 6 in gauge) opens from Sekondi on the Gulf of Guinea to the gold mining district of Tarkwa.
June 14 – The Atlantic City Railroad (predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) is incorporated from the merger of the Camden County Railroad, Ocean City Railroad and Seacoast Railroad.
June 24 – The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) is formed through the merger of eight smaller American steam locomotive manufacturers.

July events

July 25 – The Hull Electric Railway officially begins regular service over the Interprovincial Bridge between Ottawa and Aylmer, Quebec.^[7]

August events

August 5 – Queenscliff Junction, in Victoria, Australia, is closed.^[8]

September events

September 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), having purchased the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and renamed it to the Grand Canyon Railway, begins to operate a passenger train service over its new subsidiary railroad between Williams, Arizona, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon as a destination for ATSF's customers.^[9]

October events

October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 Hz frequency on the Royal Prussian Military Railway.^[10]
October 13 – The London and South Western Railway in England completes experimental installation at Grateley on its West of England main line of automatic semaphore signals controlled by track circuits and pneumatics, the first such scheme in the United Kingdom.^[11]^[12]^[13]

November events

November – Official start of traffic on Chinese Eastern Railway.
November 7 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas.^[14]
November 12 – The Pacific Electric Railway is incorporated in California.^[15]

December events

December 2 – The Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway is incorporated.^[16]
December 3 – The 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) first part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is opened.^[17]
December 12 – Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt announces the railroad's plan to enter New York City – to tunnel under the Hudson River and to build a grand station on the West Side of Manhattan, a station that would become Pennsylvania Station.
December 17 – The first section of the metre gauge Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway in Switzerland is opened from Montreux to Les Avants (10.9 km or 6.8 mi).
December 21 – "Last spike" ceremony for the Uganda Railway (metre gauge), completed from Mombasa to Port Florence (Kisumu) on the shore of Lake Victoria.^[18]
December 24 – The New Zealand Government Railways become the first major railway to place a 4-6-2 steam locomotive into service, having ordered thirteen Q class from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.^[19]^[20]

Unknown date events

E. H. Harriman succeeds Charles Melville Hays as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Jacob S. Rogers, still the primary shareholder, closes Rogers Locomotive Company, but then reopens the company as Rogers Locomotive Works after the ALCO merger.
American Car and Foundry (ACF) acquires Jackson and Sharp Company and Common Sense Bolster Company.
George Frederick Baer becomes president of Reading Company.
The Lake Shore Electric Railway is formed through the merger of the Lorain and Cleveland Railway, Sandusky and Interurban Railway and Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway.

Births

December births

December 11 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950–1966, is born (died 1969).

Deaths

January deaths

January 6 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator car operators (born 1832).

February deaths

February 9 – Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), who founded the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (born 1835).
February 18 – Egide Walschaerts, Belgian inventor of a steam locomotive valve gear (born 1820).^[21]

April deaths

April 13 – Edward Watkin, Chairman of several English railway companies, most notably the South Eastern Railway and the Great Central Railway (born 1819).

Unknown date deaths

Jacob S. Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers and second president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.

References

^ Beck, Wayne. Cotton Belt News (1957). "The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway". Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
^ Keat, Peter J. (2001). Goodbye to Victoria, the Last Queen Empress – the story of Queen Victoria's funeral train. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-569-9.
^ The Wuppertal Suspension Railway. Lübeck: Schöning. 2009. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-89917-448-9.
^ Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-946537-22-8.
^ "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
^ ja:山陽本線#歴史#年表#山陽鉄道 (Japanese language ) Retrieved January 13, 2017.
^ "Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history". December 3, 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2005. Retrieved July 22, 2005.
^ "History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway". Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
^ Bianchi, Curt (May 1995). "By steam to the Grand Canyon". Trains: 38–45.
^ Nisbet, Alistair F. (2021). "Express Electric Railways". BackTrack. 35: 297–301.
^ Pryer, G. A. (1977). A pictorial record of Southern Signals. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-902888-81-4.
^ Kichenside, Geoffrey; Williams, Alan (1998). Two centuries of Railway Signalling. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-541-4.
^ Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved July 7, 2007.
^ Missouri Pacific Historical Society (2005). "St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS)". Archived from the original on October 1, 2005. Retrieved November 7, 2005.
^ Walker, Jim (2006). Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-4688-9.
^ "South Shore Railroad history". Chicago Post-Tribune. June 29, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1995). På meterspor i Nidaros. Oslo: Baneforlaget. p. 6.
^ Miller, Charles (1971). The Lunatic Express. New York: Macdonald. ISBN 978-0-02-584940-2.
^ Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85112-707-1.
^ "Q Class 4–6-2 Register". TrainWeb. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-22-3.

[1] Beck, Wayne. Cotton Belt News (1957). "The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway". Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2005.

[2] Keat, Peter J. (2001). Goodbye to Victoria, the Last Queen Empress – the story of Queen Victoria's funeral train. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-569-9.

[3] The Wuppertal Suspension Railway. Lübeck: Schöning. 2009. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-89917-448-9.

[4] Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-946537-22-8.

[5] "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2005.

[6] :山陽本線#歴史#年表#山陽鉄道 (Japanese language ) Retrieved January 13, 2017.

[7] "Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history". December 3, 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2005. Retrieved July 22, 2005.

[8] "History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway". Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2005.

[9] Bianchi, Curt (May 1995). "By steam to the Grand Canyon". Trains: 38–45.

[10] Nisbet, Alistair F. (2021). "Express Electric Railways". BackTrack. 35: 297–301.

[11] Pryer, G. A. (1977). A pictorial record of Southern Signals. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-902888-81-4.

[12] Kichenside, Geoffrey; Williams, Alan (1998). Two centuries of Railway Signalling. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-541-4.

[13] Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved July 7, 2007.

[14] Missouri Pacific Historical Society (2005). "St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS)". Archived from the original on October 1, 2005. Retrieved November 7, 2005.

[15] Walker, Jim (2006). Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-4688-9.

[16] "South Shore Railroad history". Chicago Post-Tribune. June 29, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.^{[dead link‍]}

[17] Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1995). På meterspor i Nidaros. Oslo: Baneforlaget. p. 6.

[18] Miller, Charles (1971). The Lunatic Express. New York: Macdonald. ISBN 978-0-02-584940-2.

[19] Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85112-707-1.

[20] "Q Class 4–6-2 Register". TrainWeb. Retrieved June 6, 2010.

[21] Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-22-3.

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 ===January events===
-* January 3 – The [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway]] purchases the [[Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad]] in [[Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Beck, Wayne. ''Cotton Belt News'' |year=1957 |url=http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html |title=The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway |accessdate=August 6, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018200123/http://geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html |archivedate=October 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
+* January 3 – The [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway]] purchases the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad in [[Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Beck, Wayne. ''Cotton Belt News'' |year=1957 |url=http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html |title=The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway |accessdate=August 6, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018200123/http://geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html |archivedate=October 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
 ===February events===
-* February – The [[Canadian Locomotive Company]] is formed from the assets of the bankrupt [[Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company]].
+* February – The [[Canadian Locomotive Company]] is formed from the assets of the bankrupt Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
 * February 2 – The body of [[Queen Victoria]] is conveyed by the [[London and South Western Railway|London & South Western]], [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway|London, Brighton & South Coast]] and [[Great Western Railway]]s from [[Gosport]] via London to [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], England for her funeral.<ref>{{cite book|last=Keat|first=Peter J.|title=Goodbye to Victoria, the Last Queen Empress – the story of Queen Victoria's funeral train|year=2001|publisher=Oakwood Press|location=Usk|isbn=978-0-85361-569-9}}</ref>
 [[File:Glenfinnan Viaduct.jpg|thumb|right|[[Glenfinnan Viaduct]] on the [[Mallaig Extension Railway]]]]
 ===March events===
-* March 1 – First section of [[Wuppertal Schwebebahn]] [[suspension railway]] opens to the public.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Wuppertal Suspension Railway|location=Lübeck|publisher=Schöning|isbn=978-3-89917-448-9|page=27}}</ref>
+* March 1 – First section of [[Wuppertal Schwebebahn]] [[suspension railway]] opens to the public.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Wuppertal Suspension Railway|year=2009 |location=Lübeck|publisher=Schöning|isbn=978-3-89917-448-9|page=27}}</ref>
 ===April events===
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 ===May events===
 * May
-** [[Frederick D. Underwood]] succeeds [[Eben B. Thomas]] as president of the [[Erie Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=March 15, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|archivedate=March 18, 2005<!--DASHBot-->|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+** [[Frederick D. Underwood]] succeeds Eben B. Thomas as president of the [[Erie Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=March 15, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|archivedate=March 18, 2005<!--DASHBot-->|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 ** [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] Government Railway opens from [[Sekondi]] on the coast to [[Tarkwa]].
 * May 27 &ndash; Sanyo Railroad Line, [[Kōbe Station|Kobe]] to [[Shimonoseki Station|Bakan]] (Shimonoseki Station renamed from June 1902) route officially completed in [[Japan]] (as predecessor of [[Sanyo Line|JR Sanyo Line]]).<ref>[[:ja:山陽本線#歴史#年表#山陽鉄道]] '''(Japanese language )''' Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
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 ===July events===
-* July 25 – The [[Hull Electric Railway]] officially begins regular service over the [[Interprovincial Bridge]] between [[Ottawa]] and [[Aylmer, Quebec]].<ref>{{cite web|date=December 3, 2004|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm|title=Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history|accessdate=July 22, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050816215418/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm|archivedate=August 16, 2005|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
+* July 25 – The Hull Electric Railway officially begins regular service over the [[Interprovincial Bridge]] between [[Ottawa]] and [[Aylmer, Quebec]].<ref>{{cite web|date=December 3, 2004|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm|title=Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history|accessdate=July 22, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050816215418/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/street.htm|archivedate=August 16, 2005|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
 ===August events===
-* August 5 – [[Queenscliff Junction]], in [[Victoria, Australia]], is closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64|title=History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway|accessdate=August 4, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410210717/http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64 |archivedate=April 10, 2012}}</ref>
+* August 5 – Queenscliff Junction, in [[Victoria, Australia]], is closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64|title=History of the Geelong–Queenscliff Railway|accessdate=August 4, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410210717/http://www.bpr.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=64 |archivedate=April 10, 2012}}</ref>
 ===September events===
 [[File:First run of Grand Canyon Railway.jpg|thumb|Passengers and crew gather for a group photo on the first run of the [[Grand Canyon Railway]].]]
-* September 17 – [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] (ATSF), having purchased the [[Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway]] and renamed it to the [[Grand Canyon Railway]], begins to operate a [[passenger train]] service over its new subsidiary railroad between [[Williams, Arizona]], and the south rim of the [[Grand Canyon]] as a destination for ATSF's customers.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bianchi|first=Curt|date=May 1995|title=By steam to the Grand Canyon|journal=[[Trains (magazine)|Trains]]|pages=38–45}}</ref>
+* September 17 – [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] (ATSF), having purchased the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and renamed it to the [[Grand Canyon Railway]], begins to operate a [[passenger train]] service over its new subsidiary railroad between [[Williams, Arizona]], and the south rim of the [[Grand Canyon]] as a destination for ATSF's customers.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bianchi|first=Curt|date=May 1995|title=By steam to the Grand Canyon|journal=[[Trains (magazine)|Trains]]|pages=38–45}}</ref>
 ===October events===
-* October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 [[Hz]] frequency on the [[Royal Prussian Military Railway]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Alistair F.|last=Nisbet|title=Express Electric Railways|journal=BackTrack|volume=35|year=2021|pages=297-301}}</ref>
+* October 8 – First experimental high-speed test of electric traction using three-phase power at 10 kV/50 [[Hz]] frequency on the [[Royal Prussian Military Railway]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Alistair F.|last=Nisbet|title=Express Electric Railways|journal=BackTrack|volume=35|year=2021|pages=297–301}}</ref>
 * October 13 – The [[London and South Western Railway]] in England completes experimental installation at [[Grateley]] on its West of England main line of automatic [[railway signal|semaphore signals]] controlled by [[track circuit]]s and [[pneumatics]], the first such scheme in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pryer|first=G. A.|title=A pictorial record of Southern Signals|year=1977|publisher=Oxford Publishing Co|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-902888-81-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kichenside|first=Geoffrey|author2=Williams, Alan|title=Two centuries of Railway Signalling|year=1998|publisher=Oxford Publishing Co|location=Sparkford|isbn=978-0-86093-541-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Left|first=Sarah|title=Key dates in Britain's railway history|work=The Guardian Unlimited|date=January 15, 2002|url=https://www.theguardian.com/transport/Story/0,2763,633951,00.html| accessdate= 7 July 2007 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>
 ===November events===
 * November – Official start of traffic on [[Chinese Eastern Railway]].
-* November 7 – [[Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad]], a predecessor of the [[St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad]], is organized in [[Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Missouri Pacific Historical Society |year=2005 |url=http://mopac.org/history_stlims.asp |title=St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS) |accessdate=November 7, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051001181523/http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp |archivedate=October 1, 2005 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
+* November 7 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in [[Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Missouri Pacific Historical Society |year=2005 |url=http://mopac.org/history_stlims.asp |title=St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS) |accessdate=November 7, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051001181523/http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp |archivedate=October 1, 2005 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
 * November 12 – The [[Pacific Electric Railway]] is incorporated in California.<ref>{{cite book|title=Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars|last=Walker|first=Jim|year=2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|page=7|isbn=978-0-7385-4688-9}}</ref>
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 * [[E. H. Harriman]] succeeds [[Charles Melville Hays]] as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]].
 * [[Jacob S. Rogers]], still the primary shareholder, closes [[Rogers Locomotive Company]], but then reopens the company as [[Rogers Locomotive Works]] after the [[ALCO]] merger.
-* [[American Car and Foundry]] (ACF) acquires [[Jackson and Sharp Company]] and [[Common Sense Bolster Company]].
+* [[American Car and Foundry]] (ACF) acquires [[Jackson and Sharp Company]] and Common Sense Bolster Company.
 * [[George Frederick Baer]] becomes president of [[Reading Company]].
-* The [[Lake Shore Electric Railway]] is formed through the merger of the [[Lorain and Cleveland Railway]], [[Sandusky and Interurban Railway]] and [[Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway]].
+* The [[Lake Shore Electric Railway]] is formed through the merger of the Lorain and Cleveland Railway, Sandusky and Interurban Railway and Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway.
 ==Births==