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19th century

 * 1833 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad is incorporated to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts.
 * 1847 – The Amiens-Boulogne line in France opens between Abbeville and Étaples.
 * 1859 – While under lease to Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Somerset Central Railway is extended to Wells.

20th century

 * 1915 – The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, later known as the Monon Railroad, acquires control of the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad.
 * 1937 – The last tram operates on the Porte de Saint-Cloud-Porte de Vincennes line in Paris, France.
 * 1941 – Osaka Electric Railroad (Daiki) and Sangū Express Electric Railway (Sankyū) merge to form Kansai Express Railway (Kankyū).
 * 1962 – Canadian Pacific Railway receives authorization to discontinue passenger train service between Ottawa and Chalk River.
 * 1996 – Amtrak selects the "American Flyer" design developed by Bombardier and Alstom, based on the TGV trains of France, as the design model for its Acela Express rolling stock.
 * 1999 – In the Bourbonnais train accident, the southbound Amtrak train 59, City of New Orleans, strikes a loaded semi-truck on a grade crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois; all but three of the passenger cars derail, killing 11 of the train's passengers. The NTSB attributes the cause to the truck driver trying to beat the train at the crossing.

21st century

 * 2006 – At the sixth meeting of the Franco-German Council of Ministers, the new railway bridge over the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl is authorized.
 * 2014 – East Japan Railway Company introduces EV-E301 series two-car battery electric multiple unit (BEMU) trains on the Karasuyama Line and Tohoku Main Line between Utsunomiya and Karasuyama to eventually replace diesel multiple unit trains on the Karasuyama Line.

Births

 * 1908 – Bernard Holden, president of Bluebell Railway, is born (d. 2012).