Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/January 1

• 1902 – The Swiss Federal Railways (pictured) is formed through the merger and nationalization of several smaller railroads.
• 1923 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.
• 1948 – British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.
• 1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
• 1994 – Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn are merged to form Deutsche Bahn AG.
• 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.

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