1952

Timelines:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Births:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Deaths:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Establishments:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Disestablishments:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Introductions:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Accidents:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Images:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

By month

January

• January 19 - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Downholland branch, originally built as the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway, is closed.

Unknown date

• Slovenian toy company Mehano is founded.
• Fleischmann releases its first HO scale model trains.

Births

Unknown date births

• George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998-2002, is born (d. 2007).