Events January events January 23 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated Railroad of the Chicago "L" with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues. February events February 14 – Northern Pacific Railway opens its Union Station in Portland, Oregon. February 24 – Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. March events March 20 – The Grand Trunk Railway purchases the Central Vermont Railway and begins operating it as a wholly owned subsidiary. April events April 6 – The Snowdon Mountain Railway in North Wales, the only Abt rack system line in the British Isles, commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year. April 15 – Passenger rail service of the Henry Flagler Florida East Coast Railway arrives at its new terminus in Miami from West Palm Beach at the persuasion of Julia Tuttle; this quickly leads to incorporation of the city of Miami months later and extensive development of the Greater Miami, South Florida and the Keys. May events May 2 – Budapest Metro Line 1 (Hungary), the world's second, is opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. May 9 – First Nord Express, Paris, France/Oostend, Belgium, to Saint Petersburg, Russia. May 13 – The Pretoria–Pietersburg Railway, a predecessor of the Central South African Railways, is incorporated in London. May 30 – Construction of the Uganda Railway starts at Mombasa. June events June 29 – The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (predecessor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway) is incorporated. July events July 23 – Delivery of world's first commercially-built oil-engined locomotive, from Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, England to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London ( gauge). July 30 – Atlantic City rail crash: Shortly after 6:30 PM, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring around 60. September events September 15 – The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (the 'Katy') conveys 40,000 people to Crush, Texas to witness a staged train wreck as a publicity stunt arranged by its general passenger agent, William George Crush. Three spectators are accidentally killed. October events October 5 – Norwegian Railway Museum established at Hamar. December events December 14 – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world, begins operations in Glasgow, Scotland. December 25 –