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EVENTS

19th Century

1872 – The Denver, South Park And Pacific Railway is incorporated.

1880 – The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building southwestward from Kansas , reaches San Marcial, New Mexico .

20th Century

1907 – Seventeen private railroads in Japan are nationalized and merged to form Japan Railways .

1910 – The Great Western Railway , in England , abolishes second-class rail fares (first- and third-class remain).

1911 – Hudson And Manhattan Railroad trains make their first station stops at the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Manhattan Transfer station in New York City .

1915 – Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway introduces the '' Navajo '' Passenger Train in San Francisco - Los Angeles - Chicago service as a replacement for the '' Tourist Flyer ''.

1941 – After a Bankrupt cy, Spokane International Railway is reorganized as Spokane International Railroad .

1958 – Northern Ireland 's Ulster Transport Authority and the Republic Of Ireland 's Córas Iompair Éireann take over from the Great Northern Railway Board in running the remaining cross-border route ( Dublin - Belfast ) of the Irish Railway System . The GNR assets are split between the two state companies.

21st Century

2003 – M>Train ( Melbourne , Australia ) withdraws its fleet of Siemens trains for the second time.

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REFERENCES

Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.