Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 28
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- 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]
[edit] See also
- April 28 in rail transport
[edit] References
- ^ EWS Railway (2005-04-28). "EWS acquires the assets of Probotec Limited". Press release. Retrieved on 2005-04-30.
- ^ "Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel", Trains News Wire, Kalmbach Publishing, 2005-04-29. Retrieved on 2005-05-04.
