Events January events First of an eventual 863 Great Western Railway 5700 Class 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives to C. B. Collett's design completed at its Swindon Works, England. January 1 – Paul Shoup takes over the presidency of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. January 12 – Great Northern Railway (U.S.) opens replacement Cascade Tunnel, at the longest through tunnel in North America. March events March 1 – Sixty-nine railroads buy the American Railway Express Company and rename it Railway Express Agency. March 20 – Yaga Station in 5-chōme, Yaga, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, opens. March 29 – Osaka Railroad Line, Osaka Abenobashi Station to Kashiharajingu-mae Station route, is officially completed in Japan and the Osaka Abenobashi to Yoshino Station (Nara) route direct commuter train service starts (as predecessor of the Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line). April events April 1 – Odakyu Enoshima Line, Sagami-Ono to Katase-Enoshima of Fujisawa route is officially completed in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and the Shinjuku Station (Tokyo) to Katase-Enoshima route direct commuter train service starts. April 10 – The Randsfjord Line and Sørland Line in Norway take electric traction into use between Drammen and Kongsberg. May events May – Charles E. Denney succeeds John J. Bernet as president of the Erie Railroad. June events June 29 – The last scheduled train runs on the Maine narrow gauge Kennebec Central Railroad. July events July 7 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad begin air/rail service between New York and Los Angeles. Trip time is cut from 100 to 80 hours. August events August 6 – The Ghan begins operation in Australia under this name. August 26 – For the first time, Canadian National Railway uses diesel locomotives to power a passenger train, with unit number 9000 on the second section of the International Limited between Montreal and Toronto. October events October 1 – Tobu Nikko Line, Sugito via Tochigi to Tobu Nikko route is officially completed in Japan and the Tokyo Asakusa station to Tobu Nikko route direct express train service starts. November events November 1 – The Southern Railway of England celebrates the 21st "birthday" of the Southern Belle passenger train with ceremonies at each end of the train's route between London and Brighton. December events The last Willamette locomotive is built for Neils Lumber Company of Klickitat, Washington. December 1 – Underground Electric