Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 28
- April 28
- 1956 – Canadian Pacific Railway discontinues the former Imperial Limited passenger train schedule.
- 1984 – Philadelphia's Center City Commuter Connection tunnel opens for service with shuttles between Suburban Station and Market East Station.
- 2005 – The English, Welsh and Scottish Railway acquires the assets of Probotec Limited, the leading manufacturer of railroad freight car suspension systems in Europe.[1]
- 2005 – Swiss engineers blast through the last section of rock on the first bore of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel project (map pictured) under the Alps.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "EWS acquires the assets of Probotec Limited" (Press release). EWS Railway. April 28, 2005. Retrieved April 30, 2005.
- ^ "Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel". Trains News Wire. Kalmbach Publishing. April 29, 2005. Retrieved May 4, 2005.