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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1952.

Events

January events

• January 13 - Union Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco is stalled in snow on Donner Pass. The train's passengers remain stranded in the train until January 16.

July events

• July 6 - The last tram (streetcar) runs in London, England.
• July 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hits just north of Tehachapi, California. Tunnels 3 through 8 are all damaged, and no traffic moves on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Tehachapi Loop for 25 days.

August events

• August 2 - The Buffalo-Exchange Street Station opens.

September events

• September 6 - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad car ferry Badger is launched. It is the last coal-fired, passenger-carrying steamship built in the United States, and it is still in use for automobile travel.

October events

• October 8 - Three trains are involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England, a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
• October 17 - British Railways initiates trial of a new Automatic Warning System (Automatic Train Control).^[1]

November events

• November 1 - The Pacific Great Eastern Railway opens its branch from Quesnel, British Columbia, to a nearby junction with the Canadian National Railway.

December events

• December 1 - Canadian Pacific Railway ushers in the modern intermodal freight transport era with the introduction of Trailer On Flat Car service.

Unknown date events

• Donald Russell takes over as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Births

Deaths

References

1. ^ Hall, Stanley (2000). The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, vol. 1: Broad Survey. York: Friends of the National Railway Museum. ISBN 1-872826-12-1.