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19th century

 * 1884 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway.

20th century

 * 1911 – Construction of the Usambara Railway in German East Africa reaches Moshi at Mount Kilimanjaro.
 * 1964 – California Western Railroad motorcar number M-80 is destroyed in a head-on collision with motorcar number M-100.
 * 1968 – Recycling former FM Erie-built diesel locomotives, Canadian Pacific Railway opens a new continuous welded rail plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario.
 * 1980 – Alkmaar Noord railway station in the Netherlands is opened.
 * 1993 – The southern portion of the former Northwestern Pacific Railroad south of Willits, California, is leased to a private operator which adopts the former railroad's name for operations.

21st century

 * 2005 –
 * Commuter rail service between Athens and Corinth is officially inaugurated by the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE).
 * At around 11:30 PM local time, Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar explode a bomb at one of Indian Railways' train stations.
 * Sound Transit introduces a fourth Sounder passenger train in daily service between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.
 * 2015 – Ningbo Rail Transit Line 2 opens connecting Lishe International Airport Station to Qingshuipu Station.

Births

 * 1837 – Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893, is born (d. 1893).

Deaths

 * 1884 – John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad beginning in 1858, dies (b. 1820).
 * 1928 – Arthur Stilwell, president of Kansas City Southern Railroad 1897–1900, dies (b. 1859).