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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on May 9.
Events
19th century
- 1878 – The final segment of the Romanian railway between Varciorova in the south and Roman in the north opens.
- 1890 – Boston and Maine Railroad ends its lease of the Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts by purchasing it.
20th century
- 1904 – Great Western Railway locomotive number 3440, City of Truro, becomes the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel at speeds over 100 mph (160 km/h) when it hauls the Ocean Mails special from Plymouth to London Paddington.
- 1917 – Construction is completed on the 784 km (487 mile) railway line linking the port of Djibouti in French Somaliland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
21st century
Births
- 1875 – H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922, is born (d. 1948).
Deaths
- 1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the 1950s, dies (b. 1883).
References
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