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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 25.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1863 – The North Shore Railroad, a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road, is incorporated in New York to build a railroad between Hempstead Harbor and an interchange with the New York and Flushing Railroad.[1]
1866 – George W. Richardson of the Troy and Boston Railroad is awarded a U.S. patent for a steam locomotive pop safety valve.[2]
1868 – The Big Four group of financiers in California purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.
1893 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway receives official authorization to operate over a level junction with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Arnprior, Ontario.[3]
1900 – The Arkansas, Louisiana and Southern Railway, a predecessor of the Kansas City Southern Railway, opens its extension from Sibley south to Ashland, Louisiana.[4]

1905 – United Railways is added to the James J. Hill empire of railroads.[2]
1955 – Passenger service aboard Canadian National Railway's carferries across the Detroit River is discontinued and replaced with bus service through the tunnels.[5]

2003 - Canadian National Railway sells most of its Turcot Yard in Montreal to the Quebec Department of Transport for $17.8 million.[6]
2010 – Guangzhou Metro's Line 4 extension connecting Chebeinan to Huangcun opens.

1913 – Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type, dies (b. 1864).

"Long Island Rail Road History". ARRt's ARRchives. 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Societiy (2005). "This month in railroad history: September". Retrieved September 25, 2006.
"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 26, 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
Pitcher, Charles (July 1950). "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Retrieved September 25, 2006.
"Railroad History Timeline: 1950-1959". Retrieved September 25, 2006.
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2006.

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