July 1 in rail transport

1846 – The Leeds and Bradford Railway opens between Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
1862 – The Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1862 – The Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
1897 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad)

1902 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury becomes General Manager of the Great Northern Railway in England.
1918 – New York City Subway's IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line extension to South Ferry opens, with shuttle service between Wall Street and Chambers Street.
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board.
1933 – New York City Subway's IND Concourse Line opens.
1968 – The Chicago Great Western Railway is merged into the Chicago and North Western Railway to avoid bankruptcy.
2000 – The Oresund bridge is inaugurated between Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark.

2001 – Elipsos, a joint venture of SNCF (France) and RENFE (Spain), is created to handle the logistics of night trains between the two systems.
2002 – Norges Statsbaner is privatised under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications.
2002 – The railroad dining car catering services of Mitropa, which was founded in 1916, are handed over to DB Reise & Touristik AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.
2005 – Indian Railways inaugurates two new Shatabdi Express passenger trains, one between Chennai and Bangalore and a new Jan-Shatabdi Express between Madgaon and Mangalore.
2005 – Connex takes over the contract to operate Metrolink in Southern California from its previous operator, Amtrak. (Railway Age)

References

Railway Age (January 2005), Connex to take over Metrolink operations. Retrieved October 5 2005.

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