page_title: 1923 in rail transport
section_title: July events
hierarchical_section_title: 1923 in rail transport / Events / July events
caption_attribution_description: Official publicity photograph w:Victorian Railways E class (electric) locomotive No. 1101, as built, c.1923. - Zzrbiker (talk) 12:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
context_section_description: July 6 – Ongarue railway disaster: In New Zealand, about 6:00 am, the southbound Auckland to Wellington express rounds a sharp bend and ploughs into a landslip which had fallen across the railway line near Ongarue, just north of Taumarunui. 17 passengers die and 28 others are injured.
  July 11 – The Ofoten Line in Norway takes electric traction into use.
  July 15 – Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
  July 18 – In the United States, Fruit Growers Express (FGE) and the Great Northern Railway form the Western Fruit Express (WFE) in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the west.
  July 20 – First Victorian Railways electric locomotive, #1100 built at its Newport Workshops, is placed into freight service in Melbourne, Australia.
caption: Victorian Railways 1100
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