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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 9.

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Events

20th century

1934 – The Budd Company completes construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr.
1964 – British Rail ends passenger train traffic on the former Darvel Branch in Scotland.[1]
1984 – Saltaire station is reopened in West Yorkshire, England, by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive nearly twenty years after it was closed by British Railways.

Births

1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of Great Western Railway, is born (d. 1859).

Deaths

1872 – Erastus Corning, who established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central, dies (b. 1794).
1993 – Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway, dies (b. 1922).

References

Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.

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