Years in rail transport
Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1910.

Events

January events

February events

March events

April events

May events

June events

July events

August events

September events

  • September 21 A Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction interurban car overruns a meeting point at Kingsland, Indiana, and smashes head on into a northbound interurban. Forty-one people are killed in the worst accident of the interurban era.

October events

November events

December events

  • December 24 The Hawes Junction train disaster in Cumbria, England, occurs when a busy signalman forgets about a pair of bank engines which have been waiting at his starting signal and allows an express train into the same block section. Twelve people are killed in the resulting collision and fire.

Unknown date events

Births

February births

May births

Deaths

March deaths

July deaths

August deaths

  • August 2 Inoue Masaru, Japanese bureaucrat, first Director of Railways, dies on visit to London (born 1843).

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