Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 1/More

19th century

 * 1875 – Bristol and Exeter Railway completes installation of a third rail on its line between Bristol and Taunton, allowing it to operate gauge trains over the line.
 * 1879 – Great Britain's Queen Victoria opens the Tay Rail Bridge, at the time the longest bridge in the world, across the Firth of Tay in Scotland.
 * 1896 – The Darvel Branch, built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in Scotland, is extended to its namesake town of Darvel.

20th century

 * 1912 – The first streetcars cross the new Lechmere Viaduct and run on the Causeway Street Elevated line in revenue service in Boston.
 * 1944 – Kansai Express Railway (Kankyū) in Japan is reorganized as Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu).
 * 1949 – Japanese National Railways is organized.
 * 1960 – Kusatsu service is introduced in Japan as a semi express between Ueno and Naganohara.
 * 1975 – The Aurora Trans Europ Express service is downgraded to a two-class Rapido train.
 * 1980 – Aurora Trans Europ Express service is extended to Palermo using the train ferry to cross the Strait of Messina.

21st century

 * 2005 –
 * Genesee and Wyoming takes ownership and begins operations of 14 railroads from Rail Management Corporation.
 * Joseph H. Boardman, former Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation, begins his duties as Administrator for the United States Federal Railroad Administration (a division of the USDOT).
 * 2006 – Chongqing Rail Transit Line 2 is extended with the opening of Xinshancun Station.
 * 2013 – James A. Squires succeeds Wick Moorman as president of Norfolk Southern Railway.

Deaths

 * 1904 – Samuel R. Callaway, president of Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad and Belt Line, second vice president and general manager of Union Pacific Railroad 1884-1887, president of Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad 1887-1895, president of Nickel Plate Road 1895-1897, president of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad 1897-1898, president of New York Central Railroad 1898-1901, president of American Locomotive Company 1901-1904 (born 1850).