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19th century

 * 1843 – The line connecting Aachen to Herbesthal, Belgium, opens and connects to the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Prussia, making Herbesthal Railway Station the first international border station in the world.

20th century

 * 1984 – The San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad begins freight operations on the former San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway right-of-way.

21st century

 * 2004 – Canadian National Railway announces that it is selling its locomotive remote control business unit (which produced the Beltpack control system) to Cattron Group, Inc., so the railroad can focus on operations.
 * 2006 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez presides over the opening ceremonies for the first new above-ground train line constructed in Venezuela for more than 70 years, the Ezequiel Zamora Mass Transportation System.

Deaths

 * 1889 – Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837–1864, dies (b. 1816).