Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 4

1816 – Russell Sage, director for Union Pacific Railroad, is born (d. 1906).
1873 – The Ross and Monmouth Railway's line from Monmouth, Wales, to Ross on Wye, England, opens.
1883 – The first electric railway in Britain opens near Brighton.
1894 – The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.