Events January events January 1 – The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway, Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railway. January 9 – The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum. February events February 12 – The Escanaba and Lake Superior Railway is reorganized through bankruptcy proceedings as the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad. February 27 – The Nehru Setu railway bridge opens, becoming the longest bridge in India. March events March 17 – Great Eastern Railway of England introduces the first Class S46 Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 steam locomotive from its Stratford Works. March 24 – Mayor of New York Robert A. Van Wyck turns the first shovel of dirt in groundbreaking ceremonies for the first subway line in the city. March 30 – The Cape Breton Electric Tramway and Power Company in Nova Scotia, Canada, is incorporated. March 30 – The Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad is reorganized as the Ohio Midland Railroad. April events April 1 – Newtown Tram Depot is opened in Sydney. April 2 – Kreis Westhavelland opens as a gauge railway connecting Rathenow, Senzke and Paulinenaue, in the German state of Brandenburg. April 26 – A defective chimney on a house in Hull, Ontario starts the Great Hull–Ottawa fire; among the items destroyed are nearly 200 freight cars and the Canadian Pacific Railway station and freight house. The resulting shortage of lumber for reconstruction forces Canada Atlantic Railway to temporarily halt production on new railroad cars at the company shops in Ottawa. April 30 – Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, and earns a spot in American folklore. May events May – The Santa Fe and San Joaquin Valley Railway begins operations between Bakersfield and San Francisco. May 24 – Nottingham Victoria railway station opens in Nottingham, England. May 28 – The Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans opens its Gare d'Orsay station in Paris, the world's first electrified urban terminal station. May 31 – The Northwestern Elevated Railway, built by infamous traction magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes, begins operations between the Loop in downtown Chicago and Wilson and Broadway Avenues in Uptown on the North Side. June events June 22 – A train at the Grand Falls in New Brunswick, Canada, falls through the bridge into the Saint