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20th century

 * 1911 – Electric trains begin work between London Victoria station and Crystal Palace.
 * 1936 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
 * 1996 – Chicago Transit Authority reopens the Chicago 'L' Green Line after a two-year long linewide renovation and rehabilitation project.

21st century

 * 2005 – A fire engulfs a railroad bridge in Kearney, New Jersey, on the heavily travelled Northeast Corridor.

Births

 * 1808 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie, locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway 1850–1871 (d. 1871), is born.

Deaths

 * 1916 – Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad, dies (b. 1836).