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20th century

 * 1922 – Le Train Bleu resumes service over the entire Calais-Nice route.
 * 1941 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway officials accept the first 2-6-6-6 Allegheny steam locomotive from the Lima Locomotive Works. Despite many claims made by Alco, Union Pacific Railroad and others for the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, the Alleghenies are the largest steam locomotives ever built for service in the United States.
 * 1965 – Căile Ferate Române, the national railway system of Romania, opens its first electrified segment using the existing Braşov-Predeal line.

21st century

 * 2003 – The European Commission approves the franchise of the Trans-Pennine Express JV between Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and other northern England locations as a joint operation of FirstGroup plc and Keolis.
 * 2006 – London Overground closes a section of the North London Line between Stratford and North Woolwich to make a way for a Docklands Light Railway extension from to Stratford International
 * 2009 – The pre-production E5 Series Shinkansen set makes its first appearance at Tokyo Station.

Births

 * 1884 – Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, is born (d. 1954).