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2012 Event - A section of China's high-speed railway collapses after it underwent test runs; the collapse may have resulted from heavy rains

2011 Event - A recent crash on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway prompts a halt in service and an inspection of all sections of the track

2010 Event - In the Swiss Alps, final breakthrough occurs on the east bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now the world's longest railway tunnel

2005 Event - Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China

1995 Death - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73

1994 Death - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69

1980 Event - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia

1977 Event - U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.

1972 Event - Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes

1970 Event - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam

1967 Event - Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 in New Hampshire

1945 Event - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

1945 Event - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close

1943 Event - Burma railway opens

1942 Event - Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway

1939 Event - Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal

1937 Event - Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars

1935 Event - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches

1932 Event - U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction

1931 Event - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)

1926 Death - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident

1926 Death - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident

1926 Event - Railway Labor Act became law

1925 Birthday - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer

1922 Birthday - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer

1920 Birthday - Dinah Sheridan, actress, Genevieve, Railway Children

1914 Event - Tanganyika Railway opens

1912 Event - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)

1912 Event - Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway

1909 Death - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65

1908 Event - 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)

1908 Event - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

1905 Event - Cairo-Capetown railway opens

1905 Event - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used

1904 Event - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1903 Event - Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn

1902 Event - Underground railway (U-Bahn)

1899 Event - Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway

1898 Death - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies

1898 Event - Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens

1898 Event - Henry Huntington buys LA Railway

1897 Event - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch

1895 Event - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa

1895 Event - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service

1894 Event - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike

1893 Event - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast

1891 Event - Granville T. Woods patents electric railway

1891 Event - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins

1889 Event - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

1888 Event - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens

1885 Event - Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie

1883 Event - International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls

1883 Event - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago

1881 Event - Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens

1880 Event - Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed

1879 Event - North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)

1879 Event - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition

1876 Event - Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens

1871 Event - Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens

1871 Event - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens

1870 Event - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado

1870 Event - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn

1869 Death - Frederik W. Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68

1866 Event - Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens

1865 Event - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens

1865 Event - Maastricht-Venlo railway in Netherlands opens

1865 Event - Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens

1864 Event - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed

1863 Event - Dutch railway to Harlingen opens

1863 Event - Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens

1863 Event - Utrecht-Swells railway opens

1863 Event - 1st underground railway opens in London

1862 Event - North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF

1861 Event - Luik-Vise-Maastricht railway opens

1860 Death - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies

1858 Birthday - Edith Nesbit, England, children books author, Railway Children

1856 Event - Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens

1855 Event - Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens

1855 Event - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens

1855 Event - 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1854 Event - Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use

1853 Event - Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens

1852 Birthday - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder, Paris Metro

1847 Event - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens

1847 Event - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens

1845 Event - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

1844 Birthday - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo.

1843 Event - Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens

1837 Event - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens

1835 Event - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens

1835 Event - St. Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France

1835 Event - King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway

1834 Event - Belgian parliament accept railway laws

1832 Event - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare)

1832 Event - 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies

1831 Birthday - Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor

1831 Birthday - George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car

1830 Event - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway

1828 Event - Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized

1826 Event - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations

1826 Event - 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts

1817 Birthday - John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway

1807 Event - 1st railway passenger service began in England

1800 Birthday - Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer

1780 Birthday - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway

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