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- January 30
- 1830 – Thomas Fremantle, director for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway beginning in 1868 and chairman of same 1896-1908, is born (d. 1918).
- 1834 – Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.
- 1905 – The Halifax and South Western Railway opens, connecting Halifax to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[1]
- 2001 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, dies (b. 1914).
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