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Two X60 commuter trains (pendeltåg) are in motion at Årstaberg commuer train station, Stockholm, in September 2014. On the left, a northbound train to Uppsala is arriving, while a southbound train to Älvsjö is departing on the right.

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• ...that the opening ceremonies of the
  Galway to Clifden railway
  were very sparsely attended because the event date was a strict church holiday and was reserved for attending church services?
• ...that following heavy damage to the Galveston Island Trolley track and cars from Hurricane Ike in 2008, substitute service with replica buses was operated until service resumed in October 2021?
• ...that although the former Santa Fe Railway's Galesburg station was demolished after regular passenger service to the station ended in 1996, the site is still used if derailments cause trains to use the Chillicothe Subdivision instead of the Mendota Subdivision?
• ...that the Fuzhou–Xiamen railway, which opened in 2010, was so heavily used that it reached capacity in 2015, spurring construction on the parallel Fuzhou–Xiamen high-speed railway for CRH passenger train services?

June 1

• Tay Rail Bridge (pictured), at the time the longest bridge in the world, across the Firth of Tay in Scotland
  .
• 1949 – Japanese National Railways is organized.
• Genesee and Wyoming takes ownership and begins operations of 14 railroads from Rail Management Corporation
  .
• 2005 – Joseph H. Boardman, former Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation, begins his duties as Administrator for the United States Federal Railroad Administration (a division of the USDOT).