19th century

• 1848
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway, the South Devon Railway, closes after less than a year of operation.
  • Frankfurt-Hanau Railway opens Hanau Station (Hanauer Bahnhof) between the streets of Röderbergweg, Zobelstraße and Hanauer Landstraße, south of the zoo in present-day Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1868 – Romania's Gara de Nord station in Bucharest opens.
• 1888 – The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first passenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities.^[1]

20th century

• 1932 – New York City Subway's IND Eighth Avenue Line opens north of Chambers Street.
• 1971 – Premier of British Columbia W. A. C. Bennett leads the ceremony to open the Pacific Great Eastern Railway's Fort Nelson Subdivision between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson, British Columbia.
• 1995 – Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger train is permanently rerouted between Memphis and Jackson due to the Illinois Central Railroad's desire to abandon the original route (the Grenada District) in favor of the newer and flatter Yazoo District.

21st century