Events January events January – General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SD40-2. February events February 5 – Last steam locomotive built in India, Class YG #3573 at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works. March events March 20 – Penn Central Railroad abandons passenger service on the Harlem Line from Dover Plains to Chatham, as well as three stations in the South Bronx, and one station in White Plains, although that one was replaced. Service to Grand Central Terminal ended in the middle of the day, leaving stranded passengers with no scheduled return trip to Chatham, forcing them to only go as far north as Dover Plains. March 24 – The Gilchrest Road crossing accident occurred on a level crossing in Clarkstown, New York, Five people were killed, and 44 injured. March 30 – The Milwaukee Road discontinues its Limburger Special service to New Glarus, Wisconsin. March 31 – Official last day of steam locomotive operation on Statens Järnvägar, Sweden. April events April – The Pacific Great Eastern Railway changes its name to British Columbia Railway. April 1 – The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) pulls out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, becoming a terminal road in New Jersey; this does not affect their Lehigh and New England Railway operations, however. The Lehigh Valley Railroad assumes operation of the former CNJ lines in Pennsylvania. April 30 – British Rail suspends operation of the Brighton Belle passenger train between London and Brighton, England. June events June 1 – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) leases the Harlem Line south of Dover Plains, New York, from Penn Central. Freight service continues to operate by Penn Central north of Dover Plains to Chatham until 1976, and to Millerton by Conrail until 1980. June 6 – Amtrak introduces the Night Owl passenger train on an overnight schedule between Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts. June 11 – Eltham Well Hall rail crash: A British Rail excursion train from Margate to Kentish Town derails at Eltham Well Hall station in the London suburb of Eltham taking a sharp curve at excessive speed. The driver (who is found to have been intoxicated) and five passengers are killed. June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France. July events July 21 – A collision between two trains near Sevilla, Spain kills 76 people. August events August 1 – FEVE opens