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19th century

 * 1872 – The Coleford Railway is chartered to build a railroad between Wyesham and Coleford, England.
 * 1892 – The Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).

20th century

 * 1910 – A passenger train travelling through dense fog hits a stationary locomotive in Richmond, Victoria, Australia, killing nine people on the moving train.
 * 1995 – Indian Railways orders its first WDG-2 locomotive.
 * 1998 – French SNCF signs its first codeshare agreement with United Airlines to permit air travellers to continue their trip in a TGV.

21st century

 * 2005 – Officials for New York state and New York City announce that they have selected the contractors to build a new structure for the existing Penn Station; the new station building, budgeted at $818 million, will be named Daniel Patrick Moynihan Station in honor of the late senator who worked to make the idea a reality.