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The First Indian Passenger Train Ran on This Day from Bombay to Thane (34kms).The train consisted of 14 carriages containing 400 passengers and powered by 3 engines name Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan.

General Sidney Sherman planned, built and opened a 20-mile segment of railroad from Stafford to Houston, called the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, Texas' first official railroad.

Eight years later, at the start of the Civil War, there were approximately 470 miles of railway in Texas. Most of these rail lines were located in and around the area of Houston, linking the city to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico.

Source www.austinrealestate.com/history-of-the-texas-railroads

West Somerset Railway Company incorporated by Act of Parliament.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, two 450 feet arched spans over the River Tamar, linking Devon and Cornwall, is opened.

The world’s first underground tube railway, the Tower Subway, opens in London, England. On its first trip, 12 people travel 450 yards(411meteres) in 11(eleven) seconds.

An air brake system based upon a design by George Westinghouse was patented on March 5, 1872. In various forms, it has been nearly universally adopted.The Westinghouse system uses air pressure to charge air reservoirs (tanks) on each car. Full air pressure signals each car to release the brakes. A reduction or loss of air pressure signals each car to apply its brakes, using the compressed air in its reservoirs.

The Somerset and Dorset Railway opened their northern extension from Evercreech Junction to Bath , to a junction with the Midland Railway half a mile from Bath station.

Born on this day Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1926- 6 April 1941 when he died in a bombing raid with hios wife and son.

The Wennington Junction rail crash in England kills 8 people

The first public electric railway opens at the Berlin Trades Exposition.

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway opened throughout to Darjeeling, India.

Opening to traffic of the Gotthard Tunnel (15 km (9 mi)), completing the Gotthardbahn in Switzerland.

Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway (Great Britain) 1937-1948, born in New Zealand on this day(d. 1970).

The first Express d'Orient is operated between Paris and Wien.

Volk's Electric Railway, the first of its kind in Britain, opens at Brighton.

Formal opening of first electrified section of Giant's Causeway Tramway in Ireland, utilising hydroelectricity.

The first ever Express d'Orient passenger train service leaves Paris for Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), by way of Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Giurgiu, then, with passengers crossing the Danube by boat, a second train from Rustchuk to Varna, and from there by boat Espero to Constantinople. The train is officially renamed Orient Express in 1891.

The first GWR coal train runs through the 4 ½ mile Severn Tunnel.

Death of Sir Daniel Gooch born on 24 August 1816.

Last Broad Gauge train runs from Paddington to the West of England.