Events January events January 21 – The New York, Boston and Montreal Railway is organized as a renaming of the New York, Boston and Northern Railway. January 29 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway completes its line between Huntington, West Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia. March events March 20 – The Staten Island Railway is reorganized through the purchase by George Law of the Staten Island Rail Road company. March – The first edition of the Cook's Continental Timetable is published; it remains in publication years later. April events April 2 – The first sleeping car is introduced in Britain, on Anglo-Scottish services. April 8 – Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway reopens its Dabhoi-Miyagam line (32 km of narrow gauge) relaid with stronger rails allowing locomotives to replace oxen as motive power (although this is not done regularly until 1880). Later part of the Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway and Western Railway, the Dabhoi system is in continuous operation until gauge conversion in the early 21st century. April 29 – Eli H. Janney is awarded , Improvement in Car-Couplings (filed for on April 1) for his knuckle coupler design. May events May 5 – The Midland Railway of England opens the main part of the Midland Grand Hotel (designed by George Gilbert Scott) at its London St Pancras terminus. May 10 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Granada, Colorado. May 19 – Ballina railway station opens in Ireland. May 22 – Henry Strong succeeds Ginery Twichell as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. June events June – The Southern Pacific Railroad builds its first steam locomotive at the railroad's Sacramento, California, shops as CP's 2nd number 55, a 4-4-0. June 2 – Construction begins on Clay Street in San Francisco, California, for the first reliably-operated cable railway in the world, the Clay Street Hill Railroad (later to become part of the San Francisco cable car system). June 14 – The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is reorganized with greater capital as the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad. July events July 1 – The Isle of Man Railway opens its first line, from Douglas to Peel. August events August 2 – The first prototypes of the San Francisco cable car system are tested at the top of Nob Hill by Andrew Hallidie. August 3 – The Wigan rail crash in England