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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 27.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1947 – After a complete overhaul, Illinois Central's Green Diamond trainset re-enters active service, this time between Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, as the Miss-Lou passenger train.
1968 – Kamalapur railway station was inaugurated by Pakistani president Ayub Khan in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1970 – The first double-deck passenger cars to operate in regular service on Canadian passenger trains enter service in Montreal.[1]
1986 – Amtrak introduces the daily Loop passenger train between Chicago and Springfield, Illinois.
1987 – Construction begins in Germany on the Berlin U-Bahn's U8 line extension to Paracelsus-Bad.
1996 – The Tōyō Rapid Railway Line, connecting Nishi-Funabashi Station in Funabashi, Chiba and Tōyō-Katsutadai Station in Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan, opens.[2]
1998 – Spain's Madrid Metro opens the section between Esperanza and Mar de Cristal on Line 4.

2005 – Polgahawela level crossing collision: A bus reportedly carrying over 90 people through the town of Polgahawela, Sri Lanka, drives through the signals and barriers at a level crossing without checking first and is struck by an express train from Colombo to Kandy.

"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. March 17, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
Terada, Hirokazu (January 19, 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

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