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

Events

19th century

• 1836 – The Utica and Schenectady Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad in New York, opens.
• 1850 – The Rochester and Syracuse Railroad is incorporated as the merger of the Auburn and Syracuse and the Auburn and Rochester railroads.
• 1853 – The original Acton station (renamed in 1920 to Acton Central) near London, England, opens.
• 1859 – The East Kent Railway is reorganized and renamed London, Chatham and Dover Railway by act of parliament.

20th century

• 1908 – New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line extension from Marble Hill–225th Street to Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station opens.
• 1913 – The Alton and Southern Railroad is formed through the merger of the Alton and Southern Railroad Company, the Denverside Connecting Railroad and the Alton and Southern Railway.
• 1915 – Estación Retiro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens.
• 1933 – The Uwajima Railway is nationalized by Japanese Government Railways, and it becomes the Uwajima Line.
• 1999 – Two trains carrying 2,500 people collide at the remote station of Gaisal, 310 miles from the city of Gauhati in West Bengal, India, killing more than 285 people. See: Gauhati rail disaster.

21st century

• 2002 – Deutsche Bahn opens the high-speed line between Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany.
• 2004 – Iowa Interstate Railroad takes over operations of a daily freight train from Iowa City, Iowa, to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway.