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1977 in rail transport - Events

1977 in rail transport - January events

• January 10 - Passenger service on Boston and Maine Railroad's Lexington Branch ends when a train consisting of a Budd Rail Diesel Car and a switcher locomotive are stranded by a snowstorm at the Bedford, Massachusetts depot.^[1]
• January 18 - Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train. (see Granville railway disaster)

1977 in rail transport - May events

• May - Auto-Train Corporation launches a second Auto Train, this time between Louisville, Kentucky and Sanford, Florida.
• May 9 - The last Orient Express passenger train operating between Paris, France, and Istanbul, Turkey, makes its final run.
• May 23 - A train highjack takes place at the village of De Punt, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Activists aim to endorse the self proclaimed Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands. Ath the same time a hostage situation occurred at a school in Bovensmilde. The Dutch Marines stormed the train at June 11, 1975 after six Starfighters flew over the train, creating a noise and distraction for the hostage takers. Six hostae takers and two passengers lost their lives in the operation. The activists at the school surrendered after they learned of the faith of their fellow acivists in the train.

1977 in rail transport - September events

• September - The second Auto Train route to Louisville, Kentucky is discontinued due to heavy financial losses.

1977 in rail transport - Unknown date events

• The Glasgow Subway shuts down for a complete system overhaul.
• W. Graham Claytor is succeeded by L. Stanley Crane as president of the Southern Railway.
• VIA Rail Canada takes over operations of the Super Continental passenger train from Canadian National.

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