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19th century

 * 1839 – The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway in England opens.
 * 1854 – The first section of what is now Belgian railway line 161 opens connecting Brussels-Luxembourg and La Hulpe stations.
 * 1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Larned.
 * 1888 – Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary companies complete construction of the final link in what has come to be known as the Surf Line connecting Los Angeles and San Diego.

Deaths

 * 1848 – George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder, dies (b. 1781).
 * 2005 – E. Spencer Miller, president of Maine Central Railroad 1952–1978, dies.