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 (NH)
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
1910 New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station
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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