Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 27


 * June 27


 * 1835 – Fred Harvey (pictured), American entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House chain of restaurants in conjunction with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is born (d. 1901).
 * 1840 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884-1909, is born (d. 1916).
 * 1895 – The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway in England is chartered by an act of Parliament.
 * 1988 – A runaway train hits a stationary rush-hour train at Gare de Lyon in France, killing 59 people and injuring more than 50 others.