Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 18

1846 The British Parliament enacts an Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways mandating standard gauges of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in for Great Britain, and 5 ft 3 in for Ireland.^[1]
1869 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway (pictured) in Nova Scotia officially opens between Annapolis and Grand Pre.
1883 – Construction on the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary, Alberta.
1935 – In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, officials of the Lancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey, frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two organizations.

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