Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 6

A Manchester Metrolink tram at Piccadily Gardens station in central Manchester

1869 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway is formed through the merger of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad and the Lake Shore Railway.[1][2]
1885 – The Meriden and Cromwell Railroad, a Connecticut predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, opens.[3]
1964 – Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.[4]
1992 – The first section of Manchester Metrolink (pictured), in Manchester, England, opens.

References

"Railroad History Timeline: 1860". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
New York Central Railroad (1913). "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". 1913 Annual Report of The New York Central Railroad System. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
Blakeslee, Philip C. "A Brief History Lines West of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co". Retrieved April 6, 2006.
Alaska Railroad. "Alaska Railroad History". Retrieved April 6, 2006.

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