1975 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.

Events

February events

• February 22 – Tretten train disaster was a head on collision near Tretten station in Norway, it killed 27 people.
• 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 to 2 hours 30 minutes, and travel time from Fukuoka to Tokyo is reduced to 5 hours.
• March 10 – Kosei Line, between Yamashina of Kyoto and Tsuruga route open, with Osaka-Kanazawa, Niigata route express train, through changed from via Hikone, Nagahama route.^{[citation needed]}

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.
• April 16 – In Portugal, Decree-Law 205-B/175 is published, nationalising the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses.^[2]

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.

July events

• July 1 – Australian National Railways Commission takes over assets of Commonwealth Railways.

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.
• Last steam locomotive operated by State Railways of Finland.
• 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.^[3]

Accidents

v t e Railway accidents in 1975 (1975) Location and date Tretten, Norway (22 February) • Moorgate, England (28 February) • Nuneaton, England (6 June) 1974 1976

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