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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 16.
Events
[edit]19th century
[edit]20th century
[edit]- 1916 – The two-story station opened by the California Southern Railroad in San Bernardino, California, is destroyed by fire.[1]
- 1920 – Le Train Bleu resumes service between Paris and Menton, France, with pre-war carriages following World War I.
21st century
[edit]- 2004 – The northbound high speed tilt train Spirit of Townsville from Brisbane, bound for Cairns, failed to slow down for a very sharp 60 km/h (37 mph) curve at Rosedale, Queensland, Australia, derailing the train; remarkably, although seven of the train's passenger cars left the tracks, no fatalities were reported from the Rosedale train crash.
Births
[edit]- 1897 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946-1948, is born (d. 1978).
Deaths
[edit]- 1847 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843-1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, dies (b. 1811).
References
[edit]- ^ San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). "A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot". Retrieved July 17, 2006.