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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 2.

Events

19th century

• 1853 – The New York Central Railroad is formed through the merger of ten smaller railroads in the New York area.
• 1884 – Melton railway station opens in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• 1900 – Kreis Westhavelland opens as a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge railway connecting Rathenow, Senzke and Paulinenaue, in the German state of Brandenburg.

20th century

• 1910 – Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn in Germany opens the section from Bad Nauheim to Rockenberg.
• 1914 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.
• 1943 – Yaga Station in 5-chōme, Yaga, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, reopens.
• 1969 – Penn Central enhances Metroliner passenger train service with added non-stop trains between Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Births

• 1835 – Jacob Nash Victor, oversaw construction for California Southern Railroad from San Diego through Cajon Pass to Barstow, California (d. 1907).