July 3rd in the railroads

This page relates to the events which proceeded a July 3rd in the railroads .

Events

1938 . Great Britain: the Locomotive with vapor Pacific 4468 Mallard establishes the railway world speed records in traction vapor to 202,7 km/h (either 126 mph).
1995 . Bielorussia: the line Avtozavodskaya of the Métro of Minsk is prolonged station Frunzenskaya at the station Pushkinskaya .
1996 . the United States: the fusion of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific is approved by the STP (Surface Transportation Board). The new unit constitutes one of the two wide-area networks of Railroad of the United States with BNSF.

2004 . Thailand: opening of the first line of the Subway of Bangkok.
2006 . Spain: the derailment of an oar of Métro to Valence resulted in the death of at least 41 people and wounded 40 others of them. The accident, which proceeded in full downtown area, would be due at an excessive speed and the rupture of a wheel, of government source. The city was in full effervescence whereas it must accommodate this weekend the Pape Benoît XVI. This accident is one of most fatal of these last decades in the Métro S Europeans. Spanish the Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero stopped his official visit in India to go near the victims.

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