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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 9.
Events
19th century
20th century
- 1934 – The Budd Company completes construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr.
- 1964 – British Rail ends passenger train traffic on the former Darvel Branch in Scotland.[1]
- 1984 – Saltaire station is reopened in West Yorkshire, England, by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive nearly twenty years after it was closed by British Railways.
21st century
Births
- 1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of Great Western Railway, is born (d. 1859).
Deaths
- 1872 – Erastus Corning, who established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central, dies (b. 1794).
- 1993 – Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway, dies (b. 1922).
References
- ^ Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.