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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 26.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1884 – Canadian Pacific Railway leases the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway.[1][2]

1911 – Construction of the Usambara Railway in German East Africa reaches Moshi at Mount Kilimanjaro.
1964 – California Western Railroad motorcar number M-80 is destroyed in a head-on collision with motorcar number M-100.[3]
1968 – Recycling former FM Erie-built diesel locomotives, Canadian Pacific Railway opens a new continuous welded rail plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario.[2]
1980 – Alkmaar Noord railway station in the Netherlands is opened.
1993 – The southern portion of the former Northwestern Pacific Railroad south of Willits, California, is leased to a private operator which adopts the former railroad's name for operations.[4]

2005 –
- Commuter rail service between Athens and Corinth is officially inaugurated by the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE).[5]
- At around 11:30 PM local time, Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar explode a bomb at one of Indian Railways' train stations.[6]
- Sound Transit introduces a fourth Sounder passenger train in daily service between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.
2015 – Ningbo Rail Transit Line 2 opens connecting Lishe International Airport Station to Qingshuipu Station.

1837 – Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893, is born (d. 1893).

1884 – John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad beginning in 1858, dies (b. 1820).
1928 – Arthur Stilwell, president of Kansas City Southern Railroad 1897–1900, dies (b. 1859).[7]

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This month in railroad history: September". Retrieved September 26, 2006.
"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 26, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2006.
Sierra Railroad (2005). "Skunk Train History". Retrieved September 26, 2006.
"Railroad Fallen Flags: L-O". Classic Trains Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing. 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2006.
"Athens-Corinth suburban railway line launched by transport minister Liapis". ANA. September 27, 2005. Retrieved September 27, 2005.
"Maoist rebels blow up a railway station in Bihar". WebIndia123. September 27, 2005. Retrieved September 28, 2005.
Pitcher, Charles (July 1950). "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Kansas City Southern Historical Society. Retrieved September 26, 2006.

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