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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on May 9.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1878 – The final segment of the Romanian railway between Varciorova in the south and Roman in the north opens.
- 1890 – Boston and Maine Railroad ends its lease of the Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts by purchasing it.
20th century edit
- 1904 – Great Western Railway locomotive number 3440, City of Truro, becomes the first steam locomotive in Europe to travel at speeds over 100 mph (160 km/h) when it hauls the Ocean Mails special from Plymouth to London Paddington.
- 1917 – Construction is completed on the 784 km (487 mile) railway line linking the port of Djibouti in French Somaliland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
21st century edit
Births edit
- 1875 – H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922, is born (d. 1948).
Deaths edit
- 1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the 1950s, dies (b. 1883).