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19th century

 * 1878 – Construction on The Ghan route south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.

20th century

 * 1905 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Berkshire Street Railway.
 * 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.
 * 1987 – A fire starts on Aylmer Manor, one of the Manor series sleeping cars used by VIA Rail, forcing VIA to take the car out of regular service permanently.

21st century

 * 2005 – The Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service.

Deaths

 * 1875 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, dies (b. 1807).