train traveling through dense fog hits a stationary locomotive in Richmond, Victoria, Australia, killing nine people on the moving train. July 26 – The London and South Western Railway introduces a new Continental service, Southampton-Havre. August events August 10 – The Mill Mountain Incline funicular in Roanoke, Virginia, opens for service. August 22 – The first Western Pacific Railroad passenger train to operate over the railroad's entire route from Salt Lake City, Utah, arrives in San Francisco, California. September events September 21 – A Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction interurban car overruns a meeting point at Kingsland, Indiana, and smashes head on into a northbound interurban. Forty-one people are killed in the worst accident of the interurban era. October events October 1 – The Great Western Railway of England, abolishes second-class rail fares (first- and third-class remain). October 10 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section) opens in HK. November events November 27 – The Pennsylvania Railroad opens Pennsylvania Station in New York City together with Manhattan Transfer station and the New Jersey side of the railroad's Hudson River tunnels (built by the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad). December events December 24 – The Hawes Junction train disaster in Cumbria, England, occurs when a busy signalman forgets about a pair of bank engines waiting at his starting signal and he then allows two trains into the one block section. Unknown date events The city of Cleveland, Ohio, approves a bond measure to pay for the Nickel Plate Road's grade separation project through the densest part of the city. Finnish Railways opens Lanskaya Station in Saint Peterburg, Russia after restructuring by the architect Bruno Granholm. The Yunnan metre gauge railway in China is completed from Laokay to Yunnan-fu by French interests. First section of Moçâmedes Railway opens in Portuguese Angola. Carillon and Grenville Railway closes, the last broad (5' 6") gauge line in Canada. Births February births February 27 – Francesco di Majo, designer of the Pendolino (died 2011). May births May 21 – Robert W. Richardson, American railroad historian (died 2007). Deaths March deaths March 7 – George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of London and North Western Railway 1903–1909 (born 1842). March 24 – Gaston du Bousquet, French steam locomotive designer (born 1839). July deaths July 20 – Ira G. Rawn, vice president of Illinois Central Railroad until 1909, president of Monon Railroad 1909-1910, dies from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot