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A 300 Series Shinkansen passing through Maibara Station, April 2002

1884 – Henry C. Lord, president of Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad in the 1850s, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868-1869, founding president of Indianapolis Belt Railroad in 1873, dies (b. 1824).
1985 – Richard Beeching, chairman of the British Railways Board 1961-1965, dies (b. 1913).
2005 – Spokespeople for JR-Tokai in Japan announce that Series 300 Shinkansen (pictured) trains have been operating with faulty speed control equipment; the problem is detected after an engineer reports that he needed to manually reduce a train's speed after the Automatic Train Control (ATC) device installed on the train failed to operate. The trains are pulled from service until repairs can be made.
2014 – A Chicago 'L' train overruns the bumper at O'Hare subway station, injuring 32.[1][2][3] See: O'Hare CTA station train crash

References

Nickeas, Peter; Bowean, Lolly; Wronski, Richard; Geiger, Kim. "Focus in CTA crash falls on operator fatigue, braking system". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
Esposito, Stefano. "'Automatic stop' kicked in before CTA train crashed at O'Hare". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
Goudie, Chuck. "Train operator identified in Blue Line crash". Retrieved 1 April 2014.

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