Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 31


 * May 31


 * 1767 – Edward Pease, first owner of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is born (d. 1858).
 * 1847 – The first railway connection between Rotterdam and The Hague opens.
 * 1879 – The first electric railway opens at the.
 * 1887 – The first Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1891 system map shown) train over the newly constructed line arrives in Los Angeles.