Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 6


 * August 6


 * 1816 – Thomas Crampton, English steam locomotive builder, is born (d. 1888).
 * 1900 – An Act is passed to authorize the absorption of the Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway in Scotland by the North British Railway via a stock transfer.
 * 1929 – The Ghan (pictured) begins operation in Australia under its current name.
 * 1986 – A spectacular train accident at Paris' Gare de l'Est kills 1 and injures 56. This disaster happened only a few weeks after another Gare de Lyon train accident on June 27; SNCF's president Philippe Rouvillois was forced to resign.