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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 23.

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Events

19th century

1831 – The Boston and Worcester Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in Massachusetts.

20th century

1979 – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway in Sydney.

21st century

2004 – Madrid Metro orders 698 new subway cars valued at €1 billion; the order is shared by Bombardier and Siemens.

Deaths

1899 – Henry B. Plant, president of the Plant System of railroads, dies (b. 1819).
2010 – Michael Cobb, British railway historian, dies (b. 1916).

References

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