1951 in the history of rail transport

• There is a railway line in Liberia . ^[one]
• The Children's (Pioneer) Railway in Plzeне is open in the Czech Republic .
• On May 18, the Lviv Children's Railway was opened in Ukraine .
• In the USSR , the first line of the narrow-gauge railway of the Tver Combine of Building Materials No. 2 was built .
• Established motor depot depot Leningrad-Finland - one of the largest depot of the USSR.
• Nabran narrow-gauge railway opened in Azerbaijan .

• In Switzerland , the first tamping machine was created at Mathisa .
• In Czechoslovakia in the Pilsen plant them. V.I. Lenin began the production of locomotives series 556.0 .
• In Sweden , the NOHAB plant began producing locomotives of the M61 series .
• In Poland , the Fablok factories have launched the production of Ol49 series locomotives .

Born

• October 21
  • Dmitry Vladimirovich Gaev - Head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" , " Honorary Railwayman ".
  • Ararat Vardanovich Khrimyan is an Armenian politician and entrepreneur, since 2004 he has been the General Director of Armenian Railways CJSC.

Passed away

• March 4 Sergey Petrovich Syromyatnikov - Heating engineer, scientist in the field of locomotive engineering, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist and Technician of the RSFSR. The founder of the scientific design of steam locomotives.
• December 19th Alexander Vasilevich Livervsky - Russian railway engineer, doctor of technical sciences, professor. Minister of Railways of the Provisional Government ( 1917 ).