Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 2

1856 – Frederick William Vanderbilt (pictured), director of the New York Central system, is born (d. 1938).
1857 – With the approach of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth line of the Great Western Railway (GWR), the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Yeovil branch line is extended from Hendford across Yeovil to the GWR station at Pen Mill, coinciding with the GWR line from Frome to Yeovil.
1938 – Frederick William Vanderbilt, director of the New York Central system, dies (b. 1856).
1987 – The Irish national transport operator Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE) is split up into subsidiaries, with Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) taking responsibility for the Irish railway network in the Republic of Ireland.

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