a truck carrying gasoline at a level crossing at Nova Iguacu in northwestern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing at least 54. July July 22 – At Tatranská Lomnica, Czechoslovakia, in the Tatra Mountains, two ČSD passenger cars collide; 19 are killed. August The direction on station Finlyandsky Rail Terminal to Zelenogorsk station in Saint Petersburg Railway Division of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, Russia has been electrified. In 1 hour and 30 minutes electric power dispatcher gave command to bring the current in the contact network. In 1 hour 50 minutes en route to a trial trip off the first electric train. August 23 – The Cangkring (near Cirebon, Indonesia) train station is destroyed by fire. August 24 – GM1, the first mainline diesel-electric locomotive built in Australia, begins road trials prior to entering service with Commonwealth Railways on September 20. The locomotive, built by Clyde Engineering of Granville, New South Wales, is adapted by Fred Shea from the EMD F7 design with A1A-A1A bogie configuration. August 26 – Railroad operations across Canada are standardized with the introduction of the Uniform Code of Operating Rules. August 28 – The last mainline train leaves Berlin, Germany's, Lehrter Bahnhof headed for the Wustermark and Nauen. September September 6 – Lehigh Valley Transit Company announces replacement of its Philadelphia Division operations by buses effective the next day. September 12 – Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation brings its last railroad locomotive out of the Lima, Ohio, factory, a transfer diesel, Pennsylvania Railroad number 5683. September 21 – A rail crash in Weedon in England kills 15 people. October October 1 – The former Blane Valley Railway line, now operated by British Railways, is closed to passenger traffic. October 26 – Quebec Railway Light and Power Company sells its Montmorency division, of track between Quebec City and St. Joachim, to Canadian National Railway. November November 5 – Western Railway (India) created as a zone of Indian Railways by merger of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway with the Saurashtra, Rajputana and Jaipur railways; Central Railway created by merger of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway with local state railways. November 21 – The isolated Ramal Ferro Industrial Eva Perón (RFIEP) 750 mm gauge railway opens in the southern Patagonian Desert of Argentina to carry coal from Río Turbio for shipping from Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, originally using Henschel 2-8-2 steam locomotives of 1922 for the main haul. December December 17