19th century

• 1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.^[1][2]

20th century

• 1909 – William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
• 1934 – Taka Station in Taka-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, is opened.
• 1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.^[3]
• 1988
  • The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
  • Shin-Onomichi Station on the high-speed Sanyo Shinkansen line in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan, is opened.
• 2000 – Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías inaugurates Fátima station on the Buenos Aires Premetro.

21st century