Events January events January 3 - Ratho rail crash in Scotland: North British Railway H class locomotive 874 Dunedin, in charge of an Edinburgh to Glasgow express train, collides with a light engine at Queensferry Junction near Ratho Station, leaving 12 people dead and 46 seriously injured; the cause is found to be inadequate signalling procedures. February events February 27 - The Milwaukee Road completes the electrification of its line from Harlowton, Montana, to Avery, Idaho. March events March 9 - Official opening of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City. March 12 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is reincorporated as the Pere Marquette Railway. March 19 - The United States Supreme Court upholds the eight-hour workday for railroads. April events April 3–16 (NS) - V. I. Lenin journeys from Switzerland across Germany by so-called "sealed train", eventually arriving to a tumultuous reception at Finland Station in Petrograd to play a leading role in the Russian Revolution. April 21 - Colorado Midland declares bankruptcy for the second and final time. May events May 9 - Completion of the 784 km-long railway line linking the port of Djibouti in French Somaliland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. July events July 31 The Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway opens the Sciotoville Bridge across the Ohio River in the United States to rail traffic. It has a continuous truss across two 775-foot (236 m) spans, the world's longest until 1945. Simbei Kunisawa succeeds Yujiro Nakamura as president of South Manchuria Railway. September September 24 - The Bere Ferrers rail accident in England kills 10 New Zealand soldiers. October events October – First North British Railway C Class steam locomotives are allocated from Scotland for loan to the British Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Division on the Western Front (World War I). October 22 – Opening of Trans-Australian Railway, 1051.7 miles (1692.6 km) of standard gauge between Port Augusta in South Australia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia (heads of steel meet on 17 October). In crossing of the Nullarbor Plain the line runs for 309 miles (497 km) without a curve, the world’s longest railway straight. October 23 - The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal. November events November 1 – Takatoku station, now known as Shin-Takatoku Station on Tobu Railway's Kinugawa Line in Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, is opened.