Events
February events
* February –
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
of
England begins production of
''Star'' Class 4-6-0
A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the abse ...
locomotives at its
Swindon Works, beginning a series of successful 4-cylinder designs.
March events
*March 4 – The first section of the
Market–Frankford Line opens in
Philadelphia from
69th Street Terminal to a loop around City Hall at
15th Street.
April events
* April 15 –
William Nelson Page is named president of the newly formed
Virginian Railway.
May events
* May 18 – The Ravenswood branch of the old Northwestern Elevated system of the
Chicago 'L'
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(today's
Brown Line), opens for service between the
Loop and Western and Leland Avenues in
Lincoln Square.
* May 22 –
Philadelphia & Western Railroad makes its inaugural run.
June events
* June 20 – Construction begins on what would become the
Causeway Street Elevated streetcar line in
Boston.
* June 22 - Opening of the
Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway in
London, a deep tube railway which now forms part of the
London Underground's
Northern line.
* June 26 - The Pennsylvania Tunnel & Terminal Railroad is formed from the merger of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York & Long Island Railroad; the new railroad company is chartered to build the
New York Tunnel Extensions beneath the
Hudson River that will connect the
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...
to
Pennsylvania Station in
New York City.
July events
* July 1 – All
New York Central Railroad services into and out of
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus ...
in
New York City are electrically hauled.
August events
* August 4 – Following a locomotive derailment, the railway bridge over the Loire at
Les Ponts-de-Cé in France collapses. 27 are killed. The bridge reopens a year later.
* August 29 – Due to faulty design, the
cantilever bridge over the
St Lawrence River at
Quebec City collapses while being built. Between 70 and 84 workers are killed. It will take 10 years to rebuild and complete the project.
October events
* October 1
**
Pacific Fruit Express
Pacific Fruit Express was an American railroad refrigerator car leasing company that at one point was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world.
History
The company was founded on December 7, 1906, as a joint venture between the Union P ...
(PFE) begins operation with a fleet of 6,600
refrigerator cars.
** The
Empire of Japan completes the
nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...
of nationwide 17 private railroads.
* October 15 – 18 die as a result of the
Shrewsbury rail accident
The Shrewsbury rail accident occurred on 15 October 1907. An overnight sleeping-car and mail train from Manchester to the West of England derailed on the sharply curved approach to Shrewsbury station, killing 18 people and injuring 33. The acc ...
on the
London & North Western Railway when a
sleeping car
The sleeping car or sleeper (often ) is a railway passenger car (rail), passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
...
train is
derailed passing through
Shrewsbury station,
England, at excessive speed.
* October 27 –
Washington Union Station although still unfinished, opens.
November events
* November 7 –
Jesús García Corona is blown up driving a burning dynamite train away from a populated area of
Nacozari, Sonora.
December events
* December 8 – The
Southern Pacific Bay Shore Cut-Off is opened for revenue service between
San Francisco and
San Bruno, California.
* December 14 – The Ravenswood extension on what is now the
Brown Line opens between Western Avenue and the current terminal at
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and Lawrence Avenues in
Albany Park.
Unknown date events
* Government of
India purchases most major railway companies and leases them back to private operators.
*
Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad: The
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad electrifies its mainline between
Stamford and
Woodlawn using a high-voltage (11 kV)
AC single-phase 25 Hz
overhead line system with a triangular cross-section catenary.
* The
Deepwater Railway and the
Tidewater Railway combine to form the
Virginian Railway.
*
Stearns Manufacturing Company is reorganized as
Heisler Locomotive Works
The Heisler locomotive is one of the three major types of geared steam locomotives and the last to be patented.
Charles L. Heisler received a patent for the design in 1892, following the construction of a prototype in 1891. Somewhat similar to ...
.
* The
Apalachicola Northern Railroad runs its first train northward from
Apalachicola, Florida.
*
Edward Harriman
Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American financier and railroad executive.
Early life
Harriman was born on February 20, 1848, in Hempstead, New York, the son of Orlando Harriman Sr., an Episcopal clergyman ...
removes
Stuyvesant Fish from the presidency of the
Illinois Central
The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A line also co ...
.
*
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...
builds its third experimental
electric locomotive, number
10003, the forerunner of the
Pennsylvania Railroad class DD1
The Pennsylvania Railroad DD1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotives were developed as part of the railroad's New York Tunnel Extension, which built the original Pennsylvania Station in New ...
class of locomotives.
* The
Lackawanna Railroad opens its Beaux Arts station in Hoboken, NJ.
Births
June births
* June 2 -
Eric Treacy, British Anglican bishop and railway photographer (died 1978).
November births
* November 1 -
Terence Cuneo, British railway artist (died 1996).
Deaths
May deaths
* May 19 -
Benjamin Baker,
British civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
, designer of the
Forth Railway Bridge (born 1840).
October deaths
* October 3 –
Jacob Nash Victor
Jacob Nash Victor (April 2, 1835 in Sandusky County, Ohio – October 3, 1907 in San Bernardino, California), son of Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash, was a civil engineer who worked as General Manager of the California Southern Railroad, a ...
, oversaw construction for the
California Southern Railroad from
San Diego through
Cajon Pass to
Barstow, California (b. 1835).
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