January 9

Events

19th century

• 1830 – Construction begins on the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, which is now part of Norfolk Southern Railway.
• 1871 – The government of Victoria, Australia, reopens Essendon railway station, Melbourne, for service.
• 1882 – The first train from Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway, departs for Dayton, Ohio.
• 1899 – Hull Electric purchases the Aylmer-Hull, Quebec line which it had been operating under a lease agreement from Canadian Pacific Railroad.

20th century

• 1911 – A snowstorm deposits more than nine feet of snow on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, halting rail traffic on the Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad.
• 1916 – Pennsylvania Railroad suspends its Federal Express passenger train service due to freight congestion on the New Haven Railroad.
• 1962 – British Rail Class 42 locomotive D859 Vanquisher enters service.
• 1985 – The Kitakyushu monorail in Japan opens between the present Heiwadori and Kikugaoka stations.
• 1999 – A man climbs over a safety barrier at Sakudaira Station on the Nagano Shinkansen line in Japan and is hit by a non-stop service in a suicide attempt.

21st century

• 2003 – Following its purchase of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and its subsidiaries, operations begin on the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway in New England, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Deaths

• 1843 – William Hedley, English engineer who designed and built Puffing Billy in cooperation with Timothy Hackworth (b. 1773).