The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
10th November 2017
On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.
On the 22nd October 1895, the Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminus.
On the 8th October 1829, Robert Stephenson’s steam locomotive The Rocket won the Rainhill Trials and secured a prize of £500 and the contract for Robert Stephenson and Company to produce locomotives for the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway that opened the following year.
16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian
16th September 2019
13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
13th September 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017
