Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 14


 * May 14


 * 1860 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Annadale.
 * 1951 – Talyllyn Railway (pictured) in Wales is reopened by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, which is generally recognized to be the first such voluntary body to operate a railway.
 * 1994 – W. Graham Claytor Jr., president of Southern Railway 1967–1977, president of Amtrak 1982–1993, dies (b. 1912).
 * 1999 – The first section of the London Underground Jubilee Line Extension opens between Stratford and North Greenwich in east London.