July 1 in rail transport

Events

19th century

* 1846 – The Leeds and Bradford Railway opens between Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
* 1862 – The Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
* 1862 – The Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
* 1897 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad)

20th century

* 1902 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury becomes General Manager of the Great Northern Railway in England.
* 1918 – New York City Subway's IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line extension to South Ferry opens, with shuttle service between Wall Street and Chambers Street.
* 1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board.
* 1933 – New York City Subway's IND Concourse Line opens.
* 1968 – The Chicago Great Western Railway is merged into the Chicago and North Western Railway to avoid bankruptcy.
* 2000 – The Oresund bridge is inaugurated between Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark.

21st century

* 2001 – Elipsos, a joint venture of SNCF (France) and RENFE (Spain), is created to handle the logistics of night trains between the two systems.
* 2002 – Norges Statsbaner is privatised under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications.
* 2002 – The railroad dining car catering services of Mitropa, which was founded in 1916, are handed over to DB Reise & Touristik AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.
* 2005 – Indian Railways inaugurates two new "Shatabdi Express" passenger trains, one between Chennai and Bangalore and a new "Jan-Shatabdi Express" between Madgaon and Mangalore.
* 2005 – Connex takes over the contract to operate Metrolink in Southern California from its previous operator, Amtrak. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_1_206/ai_n9505648 (Railway Age)]

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References

* Railway Age (January 2005), " [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_1_206/ai_n9505648 Connex to take over Metrolink operations] ". Retrieved October 5 2005.