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	1953 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1953.
		January 15 - The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad's westbound Federal Express passenger train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster's office at Union Station in Washington, DC, but nobody is killed in the accident.
		December 24 - An express train in the Czech Republic whose crew fell asleep after several bottles of wine hits a commuter train at a station, killing 106 in the Šakvice train disaster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1953_in_rail_transport (639 words)

	Transport policy
		There are a few pamphlets on transport and the problems of war, notably -"Problems of the famine: transport in Europe" written by A. Burall in 1919, (HE/43) and "Verkehrswirtschaft und Krieg" by K.W. Foerster, 1937 (HE/3).
		On international coordination of transport "Note sur la coordination du rail et de la route" was published in 1948 by the International Union of Railwaymen, (HE/D1) and "European transport: the way to unity" was written by M. Zwolf for the Fabian International Bureau in 1946 (HE/D9).
		These include-: "Britain's transport crisis: a socialist view" written by E. Davies, published by the Road and Rail Association in 1960s (HE/D21), "A future for Britain's transport" issued by the National Council on Inland Transport in 1964 (HE/D31) and "Transport in the year 2000:a discussion" issued by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1965 (HE/D33).
	www.lse.ac.uk /library/pamphlets/Transport/transportpamphletpages/transport_policy.htm (698 words)

	History: Public transport museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The foundation for the collection of historical vehicles of Prague public transport was laid as early as in 1929 when a former horse tram car from 1886 was allocated for museum purposes.
		The collection of historical trams of Prague Public Transport Company started to be extended particularly in the first half of the 1960s in connection with a massive renewal of the rolling stock of Prague trams which culminated in 1974 on the opening day of Metro service.
		A permanent exhibition on the history of Prague public transport is an integral part of the exhibition.
	www.dp-praha.cz /en/hist-muz.htm (1115 words)

	Geneva Accords
		transport aircraft shall follow air-corridors between the provisional assembly areas assigned to the French Union forces north of the demarcation line on the one hand and the Laotian frontier and the regrouping zone assigned to the French Union forces on the other hand.
		The position of the air-corridors, their width, the safety route for single-engined military aircraft transferred to the south and the search and rescue procedure for aircraft in distress shall he determined on the spot by the Trung Gia Military Commission.
		They shall have at their disposal such modern means of transport, observation and communication as they may require.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/genevacc.htm (4498 words)

	Rail transport in Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A symbolic loss to the UK rail freight industry was the custom of the Royal Mail, which from 2004 is discontinuing use of its 49-train fleet, and switching to road haulage after a near 170 year preference for trains.
		The Strategic Rail Authority is the statutory strategic planning and coordinating body for the rail industry, and the guardian of passenger and freight interests.
		The Office of Rail Regulation has as its principal functions to regulate Network Rail's stewardship of the national rail network infrastructure, and to hold train operating companies accountable to the terms of their operating licence.
	rail-transport-in-great-britain.ask.dyndns.dk (2621 words)

	Motor Transport Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Faced with a broken and complex rail network, Army transporters turned the rails into an efficient and vital part of the logistical support throughout the Korean conflict.
		Despite its imperfections, the rail system in Korea was invaluable for providing logistical support to the theater, and ensured the success of numerous tactical operations.
		RAIL UNITS IN The 8010th TMRS was headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, in 1950, running local transportation services.
	www.transchool.eustis.army.mil /museum/korearail.htm (1360 words)

	Slate Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Padarn tramway for Dinorwig Quarry was completed in 1843, and the railways to Porth Penrhyn and Y Felinheli were completed by 1852. Of course, with the extension of the national rail network the tonnage of slates carried on the railways increased greatly.
		Before the construction of the tramway at Dinorwig, boats were used on Llyn Padarn to carry slate since at least the middle of the eighteenth century.
		However, with the subsequent decline of the rail industry slate loads are today carried by road.
	www.llechicymru.info /ITransport.english.htm (460 words)

	Transport Watch UK - Road versus rail - Casualty cost comparisons across the UK
		The previous version of this facts sheet (numbered 13) assessed the subsidy to rail by reference to (a) the then capital programme, requiring in excess of £100 bn, and (b) Government and PTE Grant.
		Some of that may be funded from other than Government but if in broad terms it is regarded as all subsidy or funded from guaranteed borrowing then the total of capital and the operating subsidy provides the range £4.5bn to £5.0 bn annually for the decade.
		Against that background it is fair to say that subsidy to national rail is running at between £4.5 bn and £6.5 bn annually for the decade ending 2009.
	www.transwatch.co.uk /transport-fact-sheet-4.htm (980 words)

	Transport-Bombers: A Conceptual Shift in Precision Guided Munitions Delivery
		Using the transport aircraft in the bomber role allows planners to capitalize on the high crew ratios of the transport fleet.
		By using the transport aircraft to augment existing bomber capability, air commanders could exhaust the infrastructure and fixed air defense targets list sooner, allowing the bombers and other tactical assets to penetrate and strike at the fielded forces or other target sets.
		Transport aircraft have adequate power and pneumatic generation capability but lack adequate mission planning computers and offensive avionics systems to accomplish the bomber mission.
	www.fas.org /man/eprint/benson.htm (13268 words)

	1954 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957
		1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
		You can find it there under the keyword 1954 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1954andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1954 (1603 words)

	WA Sustainability Case Studies/Perth's Trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rail is a significant transport system for the future, as it emerges from a period where it almost died.
		A good rail system can lure people out of their cars, because people see that rail travel is faster, cheaper, more convenient and more comfortable than driving.
		The use of rail instead of cars for transport produces less smog and greenhouse gases and is far safer.
	www.sustainability.dpc.wa.gov.au /CaseStudies/trains/trainsprint.htm (2601 words)

	Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the 1840s, rail transport allowed an unprecedented flow of migrants into Paris attracted by employment in the new industries in the suburbs.
		This decline was due to the relocation of people to the suburbs caused by de-industrialisation, high rent, the gentrification of many inner quarters and the transformation of living space into offices, although not on the scale seen in some Western cities.
		Paris is a central hub of the national rail network of high-speed (TGV) and normal (Corail) trains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris (7912 words)

	Sugar Cane Transport
		Efficient transport of chopped cane is essential to avoid losses of sugar content after harvesting and to maintain a uniform flow of cane through the mills.
		The solution to the problem of transporting sugar cane to central mills emerged with the development of light rail technology by the French farmer and engineer, Paul Decauville, and the English firm John Fowler and Company.
		Small petrol-engined rail tractors were employed for light duties from the early 1920s and, after 1925, petrol-powered locomotives by Fowler and Hudswell Clarke appeared on mainline operations.
	www.lrrsa.org.au /LRR_SGRb.htm (6787 words)

	Urban Transport Technology - Toronto Transit Commission Toronto Transit Commission
		In addition to these there is a 75km long tram network and the GO Transit suburban rail service connecting with the metro at the central Union station as well as other stations.
		This air—rail link, to be called Blue22, will connect the biggest airport in Canada with the busiest surface transportation station in the country, handing approximately 80,000 and 200,000 passengers respectively on any day.
		The company is expected to spend about £200 million to build the 3.2km rail spur between the airport and a nearby line that runs to Union.
	www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/toronto (1088 words)

	National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
		The final boundary of land under the plough and the extent of the rail system is largely south of the 254 mm isohyet.
		From 1906, cheaply constructed rail lines were pushed throughout the Murray Lands and from 1907 on Eyre Peninsula, purely to encourage agricultural settlement.
		This was perhaps inevitable once the Government repealed in 1963 the Road and Railways Transport Act of 1930, thus exposing the railways to intense competition from road transport.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /common/nrm_a01_index.html (2112 words)

	Transport Blog
		Anyway, last Sunday I went to the ITV Centre just past the National Theatre to be a member of the studio audience for a programme being compered by Jonathan Dimbleby.
		At the front were Gwyneth Dunwoody (Parliamentary Transport Grumbler) and Steve Norris (not standing for Mayor of London but might have), political light-to-middle middleweights.
		At which point Norris astonished me again by reminding everyone that the Japanese high speed system, which was being discussed with the kind of reverence one would usually expect only of Patrick Crozier, is almost completely privatised.
	www.transportblog.com /archives/000441.html (1986 words)

	Transport Industry - Research Guide
		Comprehensive statistical databases for all modes of transport.
		Transportation and Public Utilities--U.S., U.K. Some data extends back to 19th century.
		Rail, Port, Road, Rural/Urban Transport, Economics and Policy.
	gethelp.library.upenn.edu /guides/business/transportation.html (391 words)

	British Transport Films - BTF
		Their purpose was the making of travelogue films that promoted destinations in town, country and seaside resorts throughout the British Isles, and promoted rail or associated transport as the best means for people to travel to the destinations represented on screen.
		Although BTF was a sponsored unit, Anstey and his team of resident and freelance filmmakers have managed not only to capture the transport of the time but moreover the period it operated in.
		As BTF was indirectly publicly funded through subsidies to the B.T.C. and B.R.B. from 1954, the unit has provided another service to the public in recording three diverse and interesting decades of British way of life and transport.
	www.derby.org /btf/home.html (791 words)

	Transport Canada Library - Canadian Transportation Resource Guides - Air Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aircraft Certification Staff Instructions provide airworthiness personnel, including delegates, with guidelines on the applicability of existing or new regulations, standards or procedures, or specify interim policies pending a required revision to be made to a given airworthiness document.
		Maintenance and Manufacturing Policy Letters are internal working documents for use by Transport Canada staff and apply only to aircraft that are operated subject to Canadian regulations.
		Maintenance and Manufacturing Staff Instructions are internal working documents for use by Transport Canada staff and apply only to aircraft that are operated subject to Canadian regulations.
	www.tc.gc.ca /library/202.htm (677 words)

	CHESTER COUNTY FACTS: transport and public works
		The school was located on Rt202, and when parents showed up in cars to retrieve their children, traffic congestion ensued despite the efforts of a West Goshen policeman to direct traffic.
		The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company recently petitioned the state PUC to replace its trolley line on PA3 between West Chester and Philadelphia with buses.
		Ralph G. Smith, Inc. was a milk transportation and moving company, which branched out into general freight, warehousing and horse transportation.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his480/notes/z-trans.htm (9648 words)

	RAIL-MARINE
		Others included the the Jay Street Connecting RR (one of the earliest RR users of internal combustion), Harlem Transfer (with its unique circular freight house and trackage), Hoboken Manufacturers RR, and CNJ's (Central RR of new Jersey's) and Erie's Bronx terminals on the Harlem River.
		Most major rail lines coming into the NY metropolitan area from the south and west, the PRR (Pennsy, Pennsylvania RR), Erie, LV (Lehigh Valley), Lackawanna, and the Jersey Central, itself, had rail-marine terminals on the Jersey side of the river.
		Two steam-tug-drawn floats were constructed, each holding 8 cars transversely, and they were served by triple-track aprons at the transfer landings, running from Alexandria down the Potomac 60 miles to Aquia Landing, about 10 miles northeast of Fredricksburg, Maryland.
	home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/railmarn.html (2146 words)

	TORONTO : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Toronto is rarely affected by the remnants of Atlantic hurricanes, although Hurricane Hazel in 1954 produced widespread flooding and damage throughout the area.
		From 1954 to 1998, the City of Toronto was one city within a larger federation of cities and municipalities called Metropolitan Toronto.
		When Metropolitan Toronto was amalgamated by the Ontario provincial government under Mike Harris to become one government, the City of Toronto was enlarged to include the former cities and municipalities of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough.
	bahairesearch.com /LookUpDefinitions/toronto (5061 words)

	Galveston County Model Rail Road Club ~ About Us
		We are a not for profit club bringing together modelers of all scales interested in expanding their knowledge and modeling abilities.
		We have modeled several parts of the Galveston rail yard in 'N' scale using the modular concept.
		Unplugging the cables and track joiners for tear down or set up takes only 1 1/2 to 2 hours to be up and running again.
	www.gcmrrc.org /About.asp (266 words)

	British National Rail Ridership from 1919
		The Strategic Rail Authority reports indicated that intercity rail ridership reached 42.4 billion passenger kilometers in 2004/2005.
		This is the highest ridership level since the immediate post war year of 1946.
		Ridership is up 41 percent since 1995-6, the last full year before award of the first privatization franchise.
	www.publicpurpose.com /ic-ukbr1919.htm (123 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Included in the so-called Monnet plans was the principle of nationalization of certain industries, notably rail and air transport systems, major banks, and coal mines.
		Partly as a result of such plans and programmes, the national product of France increased by nearly 50 per cent between 1949 and 1954, by 46 per cent between 1956 and 1964, and at an average annual rate of 3.8 per cent during the 1970s.
		In 1981 the new Socialist government began a major programme of nationalizing industries; the election of a conservative government in 1986, however, led to a reduction of the state role in the economy.
	www.schoolnet.edu.mo /~mp_hk/english/b14.htm (415 words)

	Going to Rose Bowl Game? Take a Bus and a Raincoat - Los Angeles Times
		But faced with a near sellout for the 90,000-seat stadium, Rose Bowl officials pleaded with fans to consider alternatives to driving to the game, when up to 20,000 vehicles will be expected to descend on the Arroyo Seco.
		The rain might have had a bigger impact on locals because out-of-town visitors have jammed into the area, driving the hotel occupancy rate to 98% this weekend, according to the Pasadena Visitors and Convention Bureau.
		The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said they will run 22 rail cars on the Gold Line on Saturday to handle the heavy traffic of football and parade fans.
	www.latimes.com /news/local/la-123004rose_lat,0,7189339.story (779 words)

	S.I. No. 92/1954: TURF DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1946 (TRANSPORT WORKS) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1954.
		(3) The form of rail to be laid along or across any road shall be approved by the County Council and if the Board shall be dissatisfied with its decision, it may appeal to the Minister whose decision shall be final.
		Where the railway is laid on any road, the Board shall at all times maintain and keep in good condition and repair and so as not to be a danger or annoyance to ordinary traffic the rails of which the railway for the time being consists and the sub-structure upon which the same rests.
		Nothing in this Order contained shall exempt the Board from the provisions of any General Act relating to railways and such provisions shall have effect to the extent to which they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Order.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI92Y1954.html (2323 words)

	RailServe.com: European Passenger Railways, Trams & Transit
		Dutchflyer - Rail and sail connection from Central London to the heart of Amsterdam (formerly known as the Amsterdam Express)
		Northern Rail - Joint venture of Serco Group and NedRailways to improve rail travel across the regions of the North of England
		Rail Around Birmingham - Region's railway history and current state of railways in this part of the West Midlands, UK
	www.railserve.com /Passenger/Europe (4589 words)

	Compelling case for rail transport (letter) - 9 April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The address by Stephen O'Donnell, CEO of Pacific National, at the National Press Club on February 16, 2005, in support of rail transport will be a circuit-breaker in the transport debate in Australia.
		Just as the case involving a road transport company, Hughes and Vaile Pty Ltd versus the State of NSW, which came before the Privy Council in 1954, lifted the dead hand of government from road transport, so private enterprise will revitalise the rail system and give a massive boost to Australia's economy and defence potential.
		The Australian farmers who have fought for their branch lines, and the men, and particularly the women, who have battled for an appropriate passenger and freight rail service for the bush, should not give up.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005apr09_l3.html (500 words)

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