Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 1/More

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 1.

Events

1875 – Bristol and Exeter Railway completes installation of a third rail on its line between Bristol and Taunton, allowing it to operate 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) gauge trains over the line.
1879 – Great Britain's Queen Victoria opens the Tay Rail Bridge, at the time the longest bridge in the world, across the Firth of Tay in Scotland.
1896 – The Darvel Branch, built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in Scotland, is extended to its namesake town of Darvel.^[1]

1912 – The first streetcars cross the new Lechmere Viaduct and run on the Causeway Street Elevated line in revenue service in Boston.^[2]^[3]
1944 – Kansai Express Railway (Kankyū) in Japan is reorganized as Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu).
1949 – Japanese National Railways is organized.
1960 – Kusatsu service is introduced in Japan as a semi express between Ueno and Naganohara.
1975 – The Aurora Trans Europ Express service is downgraded to a two-class Rapido train.^[4]
1980 – Aurora Trans Europ Express service is extended to Palermo using the train ferry to cross the Strait of Messina.

2005 –
- Genesee and Wyoming takes ownership and begins operations of 14 railroads from Rail Management Corporation.
- Joseph H. Boardman, former Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation, begins his duties as Administrator for the United States Federal Railroad Administration (a division of the USDOT).
2006 – Chongqing Rail Transit Line 2 is extended with the opening of Xinshancun Station.
2013 – James A. Squires succeeds Wick Moorman as president of Norfolk Southern Railway.^[5]

1904 – Samuel R. Callaway, president of Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad and Belt Line, second vice president and general manager of Union Pacific Railroad 1884-1887, president of Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad 1887-1895, president of Nickel Plate Road 1895-1897, president of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad 1897-1898, president of New York Central Railroad 1898-1901, president of American Locomotive Company 1901-1904 (born 1850).^[6]^[7]

^ Wham, Alasdair (1997). The Lost Railway Lines of Ayrshire : Ayrshire Railway Walks. Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers. p. 47. ISBN 1-8723-5027-5. OCLC 38356283.
^ Clarke, Bradley H.; Cummings, O.R. (1997). Tremont Street Subway: A Century of Public Service. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 39–49. ISBN 0938315048.
^ "VIADUCT CARS ALL RUNNING: East Cambridge Folk Much Pleased. Seven Minutes Saved and End Put to Vexatious Delays. Few Paid Fares to Say They Were on First Cars". Boston Daily Globe. 1 June 1912. Retrieved 2 May 2014 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
^ Hajt, Jörg (2001). Das grosse TEE Buch (in German). Bonn/Königswinter: Heel Verlag. p. 120. ISBN 3-89365-948-X.
^ Norfolk Southern Corporation (May 10, 2013). "Norfolk Southern Names Six to Senior Management Positions" (Press release). Retrieved March 4, 2014.
^ "Samuel R. Callaway". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago. June 2, 1904. p. 9. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
^ "Samuel R. Callaway Out; Resigns the Presidency of the New York Central". New York Times. May 18, 1901. Retrieved October 19, 2014.