Events January events January 1 – The Ilford rail crash in England kills ten. January 15 – The final spike is driven on the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia. March events March 7 – San Diego's Union Station officially opens, ushering in a new era of rail transport for the City. March 15 – The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, later known as the Monon Railroad, acquires control of the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad. April events Baldwin Locomotive Works delivers the first of 280 Péchot-Bourdon locomotives for the French trench railways on the Western Front (World War I). April 15 – Musashino Railway Line, Ikebukuro of Tokyo to Hannō route officially completed in Japan.(as predecessor of Seibu Ikebukuro Line). April 20 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway enters receivership with J. M. Dickinson and H. U. Mudge appointed as receivers. May events May 8 – Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (SStB) opens connecting Ibach, Schwyz, and Brunnen Schifflände, Switzerland. May 22 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide, the accident and ensuing fire causing 226 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is blamed on negligence by the signalmen during a shift change at a busy junction. June events June 22 – BMT Sea Beach Line opens as a New York City Subway line and AB Standard cars enter service. August events August 1 – Estación Retiro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens. August 14 – The Weedon rail crash in England kills ten. August 28 – The first train operates over the regauged Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway using gauge equipment. September events September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. September 14 – The funeral train for William Cornelius Van Horne departs Windsor Station (Montreal) at 11:00 AM bound for Joliet, Illinois; the train is pulled by CP 4-6-2 no. 2213. October events October 1 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway introduces the Navajo passenger train in San Francisco-Los Angeles-Chicago service as a replacement for the Tourist Flyer. October 27 – Keihan Electric Railway, Tenmabashi of Osaka via Hirakata to Sanjo of Kyoto route officially complete in Japan. c. October 30 – Railway to Beersheba opens. November events November 6 – The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Tunkhannock Viaduct, with 10