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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 1.

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1865 – The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
1866 – Construction of the Randsfjorden Line in Norway is completed to Vikersund.^[1]
1873 – The first section of what would become the San Francisco cable car system, the Clay Street Line, opens.
1876 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1882 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway begins operations over the leased Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.^[2]
1897 – The Tremont Street Subway tunnel in Boston, the oldest subway tunnel in North America, opens.

1913 – Howard Elliott succeeds Charles Sanger Mellen as president of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
1981 – Illinois Terminal Railroad is purchased by Norfolk and Western Railroad.

1813 – Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California that helped build the Central Pacific Railroad's portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad (d. 1878).

1894 – Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (b. 1818).
2004 – Alastair Morton, chief executive of Eurotunnel 1987-1996, chairman of Strategic Rail Authority 1999-2001, dies (b. 1938).

^ Berntsen, Ulf; Lund, Thure; Lunner, Dagfinn (1997). På sporet med Krøderkippen (in Norwegian). Norwegian Railway Club / Krøderen Line Foundation. p. 27. ISBN 82-90286-20-1.
^ History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. 1913. Retrieved August 23, 2005.
^ "Stinnes AG". FundingUniverse. Retrieved September 1, 2009.