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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 8.
Events
19th century
- 1855 – The first through train travels the entire distance from Chicago to the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
- 1863 – Ground is broken by the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, California, on the western half of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.[1]
20th century
- 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
21st century
- 2005 – Line 2 of the Bilbao metro is extended with the opening of Sestao station and Etxebarri station.
Births
- 1840 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway 1877-1902 (d. 1905).
Deaths
- 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1878).
References
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