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19th century

 * 1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives, opens in England from Liverpool Road, Manchester, to Edge Hill.
 * 1831 – The John Bull, the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world, is operated for the first time on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
 * 1873 – Freight services at Shimbashi Station in Tokyo, Japan, are introduced.
 * 1896 – William Crush, then president of Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, stages a head-on collision between two steam locomotives as a publicity stunt north of Waco, Texas; the event has come to be known as the "Crash at Crush".

20th century

 * 1916 – The 18th Avenue station on New York City Subway's BMT West End Line opens.
 * 1936 – Sangū Express Electric Railway (Sankyū) acquires Ise Railway (Iseden) and all of its lines in Japan.
 * 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when it is run under its own power by the Smithsonian Institution.

21st century

 * 2013 – Xi'an Metro Line 1 opens in China.

Births

 * 1843 – William Whyte, vice president of Canadian Pacific Railway 1910–1911, is born (d. 1914).

Deaths

 * 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of Great Western Railway, dies (b. 1806).