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January 30

Preserved Norfolk & Western 1218 on an excursion run in 1987

• 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.
• 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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