1933 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 1 – The Southern Railway's "Southern Belle", a Pullman train running between London and Brighton, England, is re-equipped with electric multiple unit cars to replace steam power. [cite journal|author=Hill, Keith|title=Brighton's Belle Époque|journal=BackTrack|volume=19|pages=70–9|date=2005]
* January 23 – San Diego and Arizona Railway's bypass around tunnel 7, which was destroyed by fire, opens. [San Diego Railroad Museum (May 8 2003), " [http://www.sdrm.org/history/sda/history.html San Diego's "Impossible Railroad"] ". Retrieved January 23 2006.]

February events

* February 1 – The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway is incorporated and assumes all operations of the San Diego and Arizona Railway.

April events

* April 11 – The Great Western Railway initiates an air service between Cardiff and Plymouth (Great Britain), using Westland Wessex aircraft chartered from Imperial Airways. [cite book|author=Stroud, John|title=Railway Air Services|date=1987|publisher=Ian Allan|location=London|isbn=0-7110-1743-3]

May events

* May 2 – Samuel T. Bledsoe succeeds William Benson Storey as president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. [cite book| pages=p 139| title=Homage to the Santa Fe; The many facets of big time railroading| author=Armitage, Merle| publisher=Omni Publications| location=Hawthorne, California| year=1973| edition=reprinted 1986| ] cite book| title=History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway| author=Bryant, Keith L., Jr.| year=1982| publisher=University of Nebraska Press| isbn=0803260660| pages=pp 260-261| ] cite book| title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe| author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie| publisher=University of Kansas Press| location=Lawrence, Kansas| year=1950| pages=p 421| ]
* May 15 – Deutsche Reichsbahn put the Fliegender Hamburger Multiple unit into service. It shortens the distance of convert|286|km|abbr=on between Hamburg and Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof to 138 minutes. The average speed was convert|124|km/h|abbr=on|lk=on.

June events

* June 25 – Canadian Pacific Railway discontinues the use of the "Imperial Limited" name, although the trains continue to run designated now by train numbers only.

July events

* July 15 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

August events

* August 15 – The first broadcast of the passing “Pan American” on radio station WSM. This will become a daily feature, popularizing “train” rhythms in country music, a Hank Williams song and making celebrities out of the Louisville & Nashville crews.

September events

* September 30 – Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad enters receivership; Samuel Insull is forced out of the railroad's presidency. [cite web| url=http://www.post-trib.com/news/1026442,SSHISTORY629.article| title=South Shore Railroad history| date=2008-06-29| work=Chicago Post-Tribune| accessdate=2008-06-30| ]

October events

* October 11 – London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4-6-0 "Royal Scot" number 6152 (of the LMS Royal Scot Class locomotives) departs the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, bound for Vancouver, British Columbia.

November events

* November 9 – Canadian National Railway's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, opens.

Unknown date events

* Matthew S. Sloan becomes president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. [cite web|author=Katy Railroad Historical Society|url=http://www.katyrailroad.org/faq.htm|title=Katy Frequently Asked Questions|accessdate=2005-02-09]
* The Cache-Two Rivers trestle on the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway is severely damaged by flood waters. Repairs proved too costly and it was closed effectively cutting the railway into two pieces. This event would lead to its demise in 1959.

Births

Deaths

* December 19 - George Jackson Churchward, former Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922, is struck down by one of his own locomotives at Swindon (b. 1857).

References

* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved October 11 2005.