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19th century

 * 1825 – The first steam-hauled passenger train service operates and carries up to 600 passengers, at the official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England.
 * 1827 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, is born.

20th century

 * 1903 – The Wreck of the Old 97 occurs in which Southern Railway's Fast Mail train number 97 careens off a bridge near Danville, Virginia.
 * 1923 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history.
 * 1972 – Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.
 * 1993
 * Amtrak's worst rail accident to date occurs in the Big Bayou Canot rail accident when the westbound Sunset Limited derails on a bridge in Alabama; the cause of the accident is found to be a collision between a river barge and one of the bridge's pilings knocking the rail out of alignment on the bridge.
 * The California Northern Railroad begins operations.
 * Shin Seibijō Station, on the Tokyo Monorail in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, is opened.
 * 1999 – After departing from England on September 17 then traveling 4500 km, the Kosovo Train for Life arrives in Pristina, Kosovo, with a trainload of humanitarian aid.

Births

 * 1823 – Frederick H. Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879-1881, is born (d. 1890).

Deaths

 * 1835 – Phineas Davis, pioneering steam locomotive builder.
 * 1965 – William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 (b. 1876).