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Events
February events
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February 1 - TheMersey Railway opened to public traffic betweenBirkenhead andLiverpool by tunnel beneath theRiver Mersey ,England . [cite book|author=Gahan, John W.|title=The Line Beneath the Liners – a hundred years of Mersey Railway sights and sounds|date=1983|publisher=Countyvise|location=Birkenhead|isbn=0-907768-40-7]March events
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March 30 - Executives from several railroad companies operating in thesouthern United States meet and agree to all regauge their railroads tostandard gauge , RailGauge|sg, byJune 1 . [cite web| author=Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society|url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm|title=This month in railroad history: March| accessmonthday=29 March|accessyear=2006]May events
* May - The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway takes control of theGulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway .July events
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July 8 -Russia nemperor Alexander III establishesRailway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction. [cite news| url=http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10684207&PageNum=0| title=Railway Worker Day marked in Russia| date=2006-08-06 | accessdate=2006-08-07| publisher=ITAR-TASS ]August events
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August 17 - The 7mile (11.3 km) longLakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County,Ohio .September events
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September 1 – Regular traffic (initially freight only) begins to pass through theGreat Western Railway ’sSevern Tunnel linking southernGloucestershire and Monmouthshire. [cite web|url=http://www.severntales.co.uk/tunnel.htm|work=Severn Tales|title=The Severn Tunnel|accessdate=2007-08-01]
*September 9 – The rail connection toCape Tormentine, New Brunswick , is completed by a predecessor of theNew Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway .October events
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October 18 - Between 5:00 AM and 6:00 PM, theSt. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad , a predecessor of the Cotton Belt Railroad, converts 418mile s (673 km) of track from narrow gauge tostandard gauge .November events
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November 20 - TheSan Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway is incorporated as a Santa Fe Railroadsubsidiary to build a rail connection between its namesake cities inCalifornia . [cite book| author=Serpico, Philip C.| title=Santa Fé Route to the Pacific| year=1988| publisher=Omni Publications| Location=Palmdale, California| id=ISBN 0-88418-000-X| pages=p 23-24 ]Unknown date events
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refrigerator car s on theSouthern Pacific Railroad enter operation.
* TheSouthern Pacific Railroad wins the landmark Supreme Court case "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad " which establishesequal rights under thelaw tocorporation s.Births
May births
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May 4 -Henry G. Ivatt ,Chief Mechanical Engineer of theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway (d.1976 ).Unknown date births
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W. Graham Claytor , president ofSouthern Railway (US) (d.1971 ).Deaths
July deaths
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July 24 -Nathaniel Worsdell , English carriage builder (b.1809 ). [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|publisher=Railway & Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|date=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9]December deaths
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December 28 -William Kimmel , director forBaltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1812).Unknown date deaths
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David Levy Yulee ,Florida railroad executive (b. 1810).References
* Clowes, J. A.; Railways of Canada Archives (
1999 ), " [http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/EastNBRailHistory.htm Eastern New Brunswick's Railway History] ". RetrievedSeptember 8 2005 .
* Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31 1902 ), " [http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1880.html Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, history of the railroads of Ohio] ". RetrievedAugust 16 2005 .
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005 ), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histoct.htm This Month in Railroad History: October] ". RetrievedOctober 18 2005 .
* Santa Fe Railroad (1945 ), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
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