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2005 Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China
1995 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73 1994 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia 1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes 1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam 1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 in New Hampshire 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close 1943 Burma railway opens 1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway 1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars 1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 1932 U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction 1931 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) 1926 David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident 1926 Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident 1926 Railway Labor Act became law 1925 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer 1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer 1920 Dinah Sheridan, actress, Genevieve, Railway Children 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens 1912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI) 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway 1909 Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65 1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague) 1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens 1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens 1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used 1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn) 1899 Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway 1898 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies 1898 Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens 1898 Henry Huntington buys LA Railway 1897 W B Purvis patents electric railway switch 1895 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa 1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast 1891 Granville T. Woods patents electric railway 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens 1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie 1883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls 1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago 1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot) 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens 1871 Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens 1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens 1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado 1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn 1869 Frederik W. Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68 1866 Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens 1865 De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens 1865 Maastricht-Venlo railway in Netherlands opens 1865 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens 1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed 1863 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens 1863 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens 1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens 1863 1st underground railway opens in London 1862 North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF 1861 Luik-Vise-Maastricht railway opens 1860 Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies 1858 Edith Nesbit, England, children books author, Railway Children 1856 Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens 1855 Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens 1855 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls 1854 Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use 1853 Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens 1852 Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder, Paris Metro 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens 1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo. 1843 Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens 1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens 1835 German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens 1835 St. Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France 1835 King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway 1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws 1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare) 1832 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies 1831 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor 1831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car 1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized 1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations 1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts 1817 John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway 1807 1st railway passenger service began in England 1800 Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer 1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway |
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