title: 1927 in rail transport
text: # 1927 in rail transport
  
  This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1927.
  
  ## 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.(as 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.(as 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 – Hebikubo Station (蛇窪駅), 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 (8.25 mi (13.28 km) of 15 in (380 mm) 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.
  
  ### 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.
  
  ## 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).
  