July 21 in rail transport
- July 21 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1836 – Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, is opened.
* 1877 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland, the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
20th century
* 1904 – The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
* 1971 – A fast train from Basel to Copenhagen derails due to a technical failure in the Class 103 engine; 23 die and 121 are injured.
* 2000 – Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.
21st century
* 2001 – Four passenger cars on the "Mangalore Mail" commuter train heading for Chennai derail while crossing the Kadalundi River near Calicut, India, killing 57 people. See: Kadalundi River rail disaster.
* 2003 – A tornado knocks down most of the former Erie Railroad's Kinzua Bridge. [cite web| author=Alward, Daniel| year=2005| url=http://www.venangoil.com/bridgeskinzua.html| title=Kinzua Bridge In McKean County Pennsylvania| accessmonthday=June 13 | accessyear=2005| ]
* 2005 – A second series of explosions occur on the London Underground just two weeks after the previous attacks
* 2005 – Union Pacific 844, the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad, makes a series of break-in runs after the most extensive overhaul of an operating steam locomotive in the United States since the 1950s. [cite web| author=Union Pacific Railroad| date=July 20 2005| url=http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/railroad/2005/0720_844_omaha_sched.shtml| title=Union Pacific Railroad's Historic Steam Locomotive No. 844 Coming to Omaha| accessmonthday=July 23 | accessyear=2005| ] [cite web| work=Trainboard.com| date=July 21 2005| url=http://www.trainboard.com/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/27/t/000555.html| title=UP offers GPS tracking of steam excursions| accessmonthday=July 25 | accessyear=2005| Includes photos of UP 844 break-in runs on July 21.]
* 2005 Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell presides over and cuts the ribbon for the opening ceremony on Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad's new branch to Homer City, Pennsylvania. [cite web| author=Harper, Margaret| work=The Penn Online| date=July 27 2005| url=http://www.thepenn.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/07/27/42e796f3547c8| title=Railroad returns: Route ready for transportation of coal to Homer City| accessmonthday=July 27 | accessyear=2005| ]
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