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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 24.

Events

19th century

• 1819 – James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

20th century

• 1916 – The 55th Street station on New York City Subway's BMT West End Line opens.

21st century

• 2002 – In the Igandu train disaster, a large passenger train in Tanzania with over 1,200 people on board rolls backwards down a hill into a stationary goods train, killing 281 people.

Births

• 1811 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad, is born (d. 1853).
• 1839 – Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America, is born (d. 1903)
• 1851 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887–1907, is born (d. 1923).