Indian River Railway Company changes its name to Florida East Coast Railway. September 26 – Anghel Saligny Bridge across the Danube inaugurated, at this time the longest metal bridge in continental Europe. October events October 10 – Opening of first transcontinental railway in South Africa linking Cape Town and Durban. October 22 – Montparnasse derailment: at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France, an express train overruns the buffer stop and crosses more than of concourse before plummeting through a window. November events November 4 – Nippon Railway begins operations on the Tsuchiura Line between Tsuchiura and Tomobe. November 4 – Narrow gauge Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad opens from Wiscasset, Maine to Albion. Unknown date events The Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway, the first interurban service in the Los Angeles area, opens. The Pasadena and Pacific Railroad begins construction on an interurban line between Pasadena and Santa Monica, California. Turkmenbashi railway station opens in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan. Accidents Births Deaths April deaths April 23 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (b. 1808). October deaths October 8 – William Mahone, American civil engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Norfolk and Western (b. 1826). References