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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 18.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1878 – Construction on The Ghan route south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.
20th century edit
- 1905 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Berkshire Street Railway.[1]
- 1977 – Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster, the Granville railway disaster, in Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.
- 1987 – A fire starts on Aylmer Manor, one of the Manor series sleeping cars used by VIA Rail, forcing VIA to take the car out of regular service permanently.[2]
21st century edit
- 2005 – The Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service.
Births edit
Deaths edit
- 1875 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, dies (b. 1807).
References edit
- ^ Government Printing Office (1914). New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.: Evidence Taken Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Vol. II. pp. 2366–2374, 2394–2397 – via Google Books.
- ^ Rushon, John (March 1988). "VIA Rail Canada". Pacific RailNews (292): 36.