Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 28

Map of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel project

1956 – Canadian Pacific Railway discontinues the former Imperial Limited passenger train schedule.
1984 – Philadelphia's Center City Commuter Connection tunnel opens for service with shuttles between Suburban Station and Market East Station.
2005 – The English, Welsh and Scottish Railway acquires the assets of Probotec Limited, the leading manufacturer of railroad freight car suspension systems in Europe.[1]
2005 – Swiss engineers blast through the last section of rock on the first bore of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel project (map pictured) under the Alps.[2]

References

"EWS acquires the assets of Probotec Limited" (Press release). EWS Railway. April 28, 2005. Retrieved April 30, 2005.
"Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel". Trains News Wire. Kalmbach Publishing. April 29, 2005. Retrieved May 4, 2005.

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