July 1 in rail transport

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

Contents 1 Events 1.1 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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[edit] 19th century

• 1846 – The Leeds and Bradford Railway opens between Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
• 1862 – The Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
• 1862 – The Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
• 1897 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad)

[edit] 20th century

• 1902 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury becomes General Manager of the Great Northern Railway in England.
• 1918 – New York City Subway's IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line extension to South Ferry opens, with shuttle service between Wall Street and Chambers Street.
• 1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board.
• 1933 – New York City Subway's IND Concourse Line opens.
• 1968 – The Chicago Great Western Railway is merged into the Chicago and North Western Railway to avoid bankruptcy.
• 2000 – The Oresund bridge is inaugurated between Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark.

[edit] 21st century

• 2001 – Elipsos, a joint venture of SNCF (France) and RENFE (Spain), is created to handle the logistics of night trains between the two systems.
• 2002 – Norges Statsbaner is privatised under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications.
• 2002 – The railroad dining car catering services of Mitropa, which was founded in 1916, are handed over to DB Reise & Touristik AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.
• 2005 – Indian Railways inaugurates two new Shatabdi Express passenger trains, one between Chennai and Bangalore and a new Jan-Shatabdi Express between Madgaon and Mangalore.
• 2005 – Connex takes over the contract to operate Metrolink in Southern California from its previous operator, Amtrak. (Railway Age)

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[edit] References

• Railway Age (January 2005), Connex to take over Metrolink operations. Retrieved October 5, 2005.