Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 5

1835 – The first railway in continental Europe, linking Brussels and Mechelen, Belgium, opens.
1836 – The Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad in Massachusetts and eastern New York.
1851 – Philip Hone (pictured), first president of Delaware and Hudson Railway 1825-1826, dies (b. 1780).
1875 – The Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad is chartered in Massachusetts.

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