1927 in rail transport

Events

January events

• January 1 - John J. Bernet succeeds Frederick D. Underwood as president of the Erie Railroad.

February events

• February 14 - The Hull Paragon rail accident in England kills 12 people.

April events

• April 1 - Odawara Express Railway Line, connecting to Shinjuku Station of Tokyo and Odawara Station, via Machida Station route officially completed in Japan (predecessor of Odakyu Line).
• April 3 - Yosan Line, Takamatsu to Matsuyama route officially completed in Shikoku Island, Japan.

May events

• May 15 - The Grand Trunk Western Railroad introduces the Maple Leaf passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Montreal, Quebec.

June events

• June 1
• Turkish State Railways formed.
• Aichi Electronic Railway Line, Atsuta Jingu-mae Station of Nagoya to Toyohashi Station route officially completed in Aichi Prefecture, Japan (predecessor of Meitetsu Nagoya Line).
• June 29 - Great Western Railway (England) takes delivery of its first 'King' Class 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotive from its Swindon Works, No. 6000 King George V.

July events

• July 6 – , later renamed as Togoshi-kōen Station, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, opens.
• July 16 - Opening of Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway on the English Channel coast ( of gauge).

August events

• August 24 - The Sevenoaks railway accident in England kills 13.
• August 25 - Detroit and Mackinac Railway officially abandons the section from Au Sable River Jct. to Comins and the Curran Branch between Hardy and Beavers.

September events

• September 1 – The Trunk Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between Oslo and Lillestrøm.
• September 24 – October 15 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad celebrates its centennial in the Fair of the Iron Horse in Baltimore, Maryland.

October events

• October 10 - First Maine Central Railroad train over Carlton Bridge ends rail ferry service across the Kennebec River at Bath, Maine.

December events

• December 3 - Official opening of London Post Office Railway.
• December 30 - The Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan between Asakusa and Ueno.

Unknown date events

• Rail transport in Cameroon extended to Yaoundé.
• American Locomotive Company builds first 4-6-4 tender locomotive, for the New York Central; also, the first 4-8-4, for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
• American Car and Foundry acquires Shippers Car Line.
• Narrow gauge Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad ends train service to the Rangeley Lakes House destination hotel.
• First Dutch National Railway Museum established.

Births

Deaths

May deaths

• May 23 - Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric Railway in the early part of the 20th century (born 1850).

October deaths

• October 7 – Godfrey M. Hyams, financier for Deepwater Railway and Tidewater Railway, dies (b. 1859).
• October 16 – David Macpherson, Canadian-born American civil engineer (b. 1854)

November deaths

• November 17 - Charles Sanger Mellen, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1897-1903 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1903, dies (born 1852).

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