1901 in the history of railway transport
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In 1901, all railway stations in Moscow were supposed to be merged into the Central Station . The project was never completed.
Content
- 1 Events
- 2 New rolling stock
- 3 Persons
- 4 notes
Events
- September 11 (24), 1901 - The correct traffic was opened on the Tukkum - Vindava (Tukums - Ventspils) section of the Moscow-Vindava railway .
- September 17 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( en ) acquired Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway and changed its name to Grand Canyon Railway ( en ). The company begins to carry out passenger transportation in its passenger cars ( en ).
- November 3 - there was a bow of rails throughout the Great Siberian Way .
- American Locomotive Company formed
- In Russia , sorting hills were built at the stations of Kochetovka, Losinoostrovskaya, Lyublino, Khovrino. [one]
- The first branch of the Balakhninsko-Shuisky narrow gauge railway network was built in Russia .
- The first railway was built in Nigeria . [one]
- Railway construction began in Ghana . [one]
- In Kenya , the first railway was built. [one]
- The Velikoluksky Locomotive Repair Plant was founded.
- The Perov Carriage Workshops were founded (later the Moscow Locomotive Repair Plant ).
New rolling stock
- In Russia, the Putilov factory launched the production of the first locomotives of the O in variety - the legendary “sheep”.
- In Russia , the production of steam locomotives of series G and Sh began at the Bryansk and Kharkov factories .
Persons
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Rail transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1994 .-- 559 p. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .