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19th century

 * 1846 – The British Parliament enacts an Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways mandating standard gauges of for Great Britain, and  for Ireland.
 * 1869 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway in Nova Scotia officially opens between Annapolis and Grand Pre.
 * 1883 – Construction on the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary, Alberta.
 * 1890 – The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway, begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine.

20th century

 * 1935 – In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, officials of the Lancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey, frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two organizations.
 * 1990 – Gråkallbanen, part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway, is reopened after the city council permanently closed the tramway in 1988.