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- August 8
![The Stourbridge Lion as painted by Clyde Osmer DeLand, circa 1916](../../../I/Stourbridge_Lion.jpg.webp)
The Stourbridge Lion as painted by Clyde Osmer DeLand, circa 1916
- 1829 – The Stourbridge Lion (pictured), the first steam locomotive delivered to the Delaware and Hudson Railway, operates for the first time in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
- 1837 – Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij, the first railway company in the Netherlands, is founded.
- 1942 – The Mumbai Rajdhani passenger train, one of many Rajdhani Express trains, is inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai, India.
- 1950 – Illinois Central Railroad retires the Green Diamond passenger trainset from active service; the trainset will soon be scrapped.
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