Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 24


 * October 24


 * 1855 – Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923, is born (d. 1944).
 * 1903 – The National Transcontinental Railway Act is passed in Canada.
 * 1940 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933, dies (b. 1857).
 * 2003 – Network Rail (pictured) announces it will conduct all maintenance activities in-house.