Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 18

1875 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, dies (b. 1807).
1878 – Construction on The Ghan route (map shown) south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.
1977 – Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster, the Granville railway disaster, in Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.
2005 – A station at the Milwaukee Airport opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service.

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