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19th century

 * 1842 – Queen Victoria made her first journey by rail (Slough to Paddington).

20th century

 * 1920 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, D.C.
 * 1928 – The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
 * 1941 – The Hauerseter–Gardermoen Line in Norway is opened by the Luftwaffe during the German occupation of Norway.
 * 1942 – Service is discontinued on the IRT Second Avenue Line, an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City.
 * 1931 – Switzerland's Brienz Rothorn Bahn reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I.
 * 1998 – Kintetsu in Japan begins driver-only operation on the Suzuka Line.

21st century

 * 2005 – CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central "High Line" elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.

Deaths

 * 1867 – Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels, dies (b. 1789).