1974, 1975, 1976

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.

Events

February events

• February 28 - Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground, in which a train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43 people at the scene.^[1]

March events

• March 10 - Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka. Travel time between the two cities is reduced 2 hours 30 minutes, and travel time from Fukuoka to Tokyo is reduced to 5 hours.

April events

• April 1 - The second American Freedom Train tour begins, powered by newly restored Southern Pacific 4449, in Wilmington, Delaware. See also American Freedom Train - 1975-76 station stops.

June events

• June 6 - An overnight northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, does not receive warning of a temporary speed restriction resulting in the Nuneaton rail crash.
• June 8 - Two trains collide on a single-track stretch between Lenggries and Munich due to a dispatcher error. 41 die and 122 are injured.

August events

• August 10 - British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region.

September events

• September 27 - Official opening of the National Railway Museum in York, England.

December events

• December 2 - A train highjack takes place at the village of Wijster, the Netherlands. Activists wanted to endorse the self proclaimed Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands. Hostages Hans Braam, Leo Bulter and Bert Bierling were shot. The activists surrendered December 14, 1975.

Unknown date events

• The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad files its third and final bankruptcy.
• As a result of the Independent Safety Board Act's passage the previous year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board becomes a completely independent agency, severing all organizational ties to the national Department of Transportation and all of its modal agencies.^[2]

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