Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 18


 * January 18


 * 1875 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, dies (b. 1807).
 * 1878 – Construction on The Ghan route (map shown) south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.
 * 1977 – Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster, the Granville railway disaster, in Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.
 * 2005 – The Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service.