Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 1

1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal (pictured) opens as the world's largest train station to date.
1946 – Henry G. Ivatt is promoted to Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, succeeding Charles Fairburn.
1968 – The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form the Penn Central. Terms of the merger with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad have not yet been agreed with the Interstate Commerce Commission; in the interim, the Penn Central will financially support the New Haven.
2003 – A signal transmission failure leads to a passenger train not receiving a warning signal; the train crashes into a slow-moving freight train in the Dete train crash in Zimbabwe, about 90 miles (140 km) from Victoria Falls; 50 of the train's 1,100 passengers die in the accident.

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