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19th century

 * 1845 – Scottish Midland Junction Railway is authorised to link Scottish Central Railway at Perth to the Aberdeen Railway at Forfar.

20th century

 * 1917 – Simbei Kunisawa succeeds Yujiro Nakamura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
 * 1944 – The last Jewish deportees train in France, carrying 1300 people, leaves Drancy deportation camp to Auschwitz.
 * 1971 – The Monon Railroad is merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 * 1987 – Queen Elizabeth II presides over the opening ceremonies of the Docklands Light Railway in London, England.
 * 1996 – Canadian Pacific Railway makes the last run of a grain load in a 40 ft boxcar with the final deliveries of grain to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Births

 * 1820 – John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad starting in 1858, is born (d. 1884)
 * 1921 – James I. C. Boyd, British railway historian, is born (d. 2009).

Deaths

 * 1858 – Edward Pease, first owner of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, dies (b. 1767).
 * 1885 – Robert F. Fairlie, English steam locomotive builder, dies (b. 1831).