Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 1

1902 – The Swiss Federal Railways is formed through the merger and nationalization of several smaller railroads.
1932 – William Stanier succeeds Ernest Lemon as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
1945 – The national railway operator in the Republic of Ireland, Great Southern Railways, with responsibility for the southern part of the Irish railway network is merged into a new national transport operator, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ).
1948 – The "Big Four" British railway companies became nationalized into British Railways, a company that once operated the national rail system rail transport in Great Britain.
1986 – The Soo Line fully absorbs the Milwaukee Road (pictured) after attempting to operate it as a subsidiary railroad.

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