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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 9.

Events

20th century

• 1934 – The Budd Company completes construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr.
• 1964 – British Rail ends passenger train traffic on the former Darvel Branch in Scotland.
• 1984 – Saltaire station is reopened in West Yorkshire, England, by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive nearly twenty years after it was closed by British Railways.

Births

• 1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of Great Western Railway, is born (d. 1859).

Deaths

• 1872 – Erastus Corning, who established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central, dies (b. 1794).
• 1993 – Robert B. Claytor, president of Norfolk and Western Railway, dies (b. 1922).