1969 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.

Events

January events

• January – The PATCO Hi-Speedline, in southeastern Pennsylvania, opens.

April events

• April 5 – The South Devon Railway, in England, reopens as a preserved steam railway.

May events

• May – A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.

November events

• November 2 – Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger train service between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, makes its final run.

Unknown date events

• ALCO ceases new diesel locomotive manufacturing.
• General Motors Electro-Motive Division builds the most powerful and largest diesel locomotive to date, the EMD DD40.

Births

Deaths

References

• Trains News Wire (April 27 2005), 'Miss Southern Belle' dies. Retrieved May 4 2005.