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19th century

 * 1848 – The Scottish Midland Junction Railway opens.
 * 1873 – The Ross and Monmouth Railway's line (pictured) from Monmouth, Wales, to Ross on Wye, England, opens.
 * 1883 – The first electric railway in Britain opens near Brighton.
 * 1894 – The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.

20th century

 * 1968 – Santa Fe Railroad discontinues the Dallas, Texas, section of the Texas Chief.

Births

 * 1816 – Russell Sage, director for Union Pacific Railroad, is born (d. 1906).
 * 1909 – Isabel Benham, American railroad financial expert, is born (d. 2013).