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19th century

 * 1860 – The London and South Western Railway extension to Exeter opens.
 * 1877 – The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road) opens.
 * 1885 – The Zanesville and Ohio River Railway enters receivership.
 * 1900 – The first section of the Paris Métro opens.

20th century

 * 1967 – The New York City Subway introduces its first air conditioned passenger car.
 * 1968 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Texas Chief passenger train discontinues station stops at Dallas, Texas.
 * 1987 – New short line railroad Red River Valley and Western Railroad begins operations over 667 miles (1,073.4 km) of former BN tracks in North Dakota.

Births

 * 1825 – George H. Pendleton, president of Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879, is born (d. 1889).