– The Carillon and Grenville Railway, in Canada, opens. November events November 13 – Opening London Necropolis railway station at Waterloo, London, a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains. Unknown date events Opening of first section of railway in Africa, the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire, between Alexandria and Kafr el-Zayyat in Egypt. Aretas Blood purchases the steam locomotive manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works and folds it into Manchester Locomotive Works. Henry Farnam becomes president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Births January births January 6 – William N. Page, American civil engineer, builder of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (d. 1932). February births February 14 – Job A. Edson, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1905–1918 and 1920–1927 (d. 1928). December births December 26 – Charles Frederick Crocker, son of Charles Crocker of California's Big Four railroaders, president of San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad (d. 1897). Deaths February deaths February 19 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (b. 1810). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 25, 2005. (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 16, 2005.