Pargolovo, Pesochny, Levashovo, Beloostrov, Solnechnoye, Repino, Komarovo and Zelenogorsk. August events August 18 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway in Nova Scotia officially opens between Annapolis and Grand Pre. September events September 13 – The Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1-mile 8 chain (1.8 km) iron girder viaduct across the Solway Firth in Scotland. September 21 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway leases the Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railway in Michigan. October events 10 October – A branch of the West Coast Main Line to Liverpool Lime Street, is opened by the London and North Western Railway, from Weaver Junction north of Crewe to Ditton Junction via the Runcorn Railway Bridge over the River Mersey, bypassing the earlier Liverpool and Manchester line. November events November 8 – The Central Pacific Railroad completes the final leg of the First transcontinental railroad in North America, connecting Sacramento, California, to San Francisco, California. November 11 – After the New York and Erie Railroad moves its primary shop facilities from Dunkirk, New York, to Buffalo, Horatio G. Brooks leases the facilities in Dunkirk and opens Brooks Locomotive Works. November 22 – The Ft. Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad opens between Jackson and Reading, Michigan. December events December – Newly founded Brooks Locomotive Works completes construction of the company's first steam locomotive; it is included in an order for the New York and Erie Railroad. Unknown date events The New York State Legislature authorised the merger of railroads already owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt into the New York Central, including the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the Canada Southern Railroad and the Michigan Central Railroad into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to Vice President of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The first railroad built in New Jersey, the Camden and Amboy Railroad, is merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. Wells and French Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois. Construction begins on the central pontifical railroad station in Rome, Italy. Births June births June 8 – William R. Coe, chief executive officer of Virginian Railway during World War II (d. 1955). July births July 24 – Julius Dorpmüller, German railway administrator (d. 1945). August births August 11 – Hale