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19th century

 * 1874 – The West Somerset Railway is extended to Minehead by the Minehead Railway.
 * 1877
 * Railroad workers go on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.
 * The Nickey line, connecting Boxmoor to Harpenden, is officially opened.
 * 1895 – Ishibashi Station, on what has become JR East's Utsunomiya (Tōhoku Main Line) and Shonan-Shinjuku lines, opens in Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

20th century

 * 1916 – Much of the Southern Railway's mainline in North and South Carolina is damaged or destroyed by flooding.
 * 1939 – The world's first diesel-powered rack locomotive enters service on the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway.
 * 1945 – Canadian National Railway opens its ore dock at Port Arthur, Ontario.
 * 1983 – The route of Amtrak's California Zephyr is shifted off the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
 * 1991 – Indian Railways inaugurates the Lifeline Express (Jeevan Rekha) hospital train.
 * 1999 – Indian Railways' Grand Trunk Express on its way to Delhi collides with derailed freight cars near Mathura, India; 17 people die and 200 more are injured in the accident.