September
01/09/1905
The Witham (Essex) rail crash in England kills 11.
04/09/1905
William Dean , CME of the GWR (1877-1902) born 1840
07/09/1962
Last 'Cornishman' express ran over the Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham route:
this and other express trains were re-routed via the Birmingham - Gloucester line.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway operates over the section of line previously used when The Cornishman train ran in its heyday.
Currently the GWSR is coping with the effects of two serious landslips. Please support the Emergency Fund so that the railway can recover from these setbacks, and move on with its ambitious plans to get to Broadway, and , who knows, to Honeybourne in the future.
15/09/1830
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened.
During the ceremony, William Huskisson MP, became the first person to be killed by a train.
The 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill in 1980 marked the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway and the Stephensons' legendary Rocket locomotive.
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml
17/09/1909
Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England, steam the first Garratt articulated steam locomotive, built to the design of Herbert William Garratt.K Class No. K1 for the Tasmanian Government Railways' North East Dundas Railway.
(MOSI is pulling out all the stops for the 100th birthday celebrations of one of Manchester’s most famous steam locomotives.
It is taking the K1, the first Beyer-Garratt produced by the Beyer, Peacock company, back to its birthplace in Gorton, Manchester, on August 17 to celebrate 100 years since it first steamed off the production line.
The anniversary has special resonance as the town of Gorton is also celebrating 100 years since it became part of Manchester, through its Gorton 100 celebrations.)
The World's First Garratt
17/09/1912
The Ditton Junction rail crash near Widnes, England, kills 15.The Official Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke
19/09/1882
Oliver Bulleid, CME , Southern Railways (1937-48) born in New Zealand (d 1970)
At Nine Elms MPD
19/09/1906
14 die as a result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway, when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham statiopn at excessive speed.
The Official Report
24/09/1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident(England) kills 10 New Zealand soldiers.
25/09/1913
Death of Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type. (b 1864)
27/09/1825
The Stockton Darlington Railway opened. It was the first passenger rail service, the steam locomotive travelled at 10mph.
Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway c1825 painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, . The image shows crowds watching a train on the bridge over the River Skerne in Darlington
27/09/1919
September 27 to October 6..Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.
During the First World War the cost of living increased rapidly. Fron July 1914 to September 1915, for example, food prices rose 37%. For the duration of the War the government was in control of the railways. Wages were increased, but at a slower rate than the risin in the cost of living. NUR and ASLEF responded jointly and forced the Board of Trade to award wage increases in September 1916 and April 1917. In March 1919 the coalition government indicated that it intended to review the War Wage, with a view to reducing it at the end of the year. The NUR and ASLEF started a second national railway strike in September 1919, which in nine days won both a change in pay policy and the reduction of the working day to eight hours.(Wikipedia)
28/09/1928
3rd class sleeping cars introduced on those British railways providing such a service.
28/09/1883
Formal opening of first electrified section of Giant's Causeway Tramway in Ireland, utilising hydroelectricity.
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