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Gara de Nord station

1848 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway, the South Devon Railway, closes after less than a year of operation.
1868 – Romania's Gara de Nord station (pictured) in Bucharest opens.
1888 – The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first passenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, Illinois, on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities.[1]
1971 – British Columbia Premier W.A.C. Bennett leads the ceremony to open the Pacific Great Eastern Railway's Fort Nelson Subdivision between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson, British Columbia.

References

Milwaukee Road Historical Association. "A Brief History of the Milwaukee Road". Retrieved April 28, 2006.

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