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{{Year in rail transport|prev=1895|curr=1896|next=1897|decade=1890}}Events January events - January 23 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.[1]
February events - February 14 – Northern Pacific Railway opens its Union Station in Portland, Oregon.
- February 24 – Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.[2]
March events - March 20 – The Grand Trunk Railway purchases the Central Vermont Railway and begins operating it as a wholly owned subsidiary.
April events - April 6 – The Snowdon Mountain Railway in North Wales, the only Abt rack system line in the British Isles, commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year.[3]
- April 15 – Passenger rail service of the Henry Flagler Florida East Coast Railway arrives at its new terminus in Miami from West Palm Beach at the persuasion of Julia Tuttle; this quickly leads to incorporation of the city of Miami months later and extensive development of the Greater Miami, South Florida and the Keys.[4][5][6][7]
May events- May 2 - Budapest Metro Line 1 (Hungary), the world's second, is opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.[8]
- May 9 – First Nord Express, Paris, France/Oostend, Belgium, to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- May 13 – The Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway, a predecessor of the Central South African Railways, is incorporated in London.
- May 30 – Construction of the Uganda Railway starts at Mombasa.[9]
June events - June 29 - The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (predecessor of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway) is incorporated.
July events - July 23 - Delivery of world's first commercially-built oil-engined locomotive, from Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, England to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London ({{convert|18|in|mm|abbr=on}} gauge).[10]
- July 30 - Atlantic City rail crash: Shortly after 6:30 PM, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring around 60.
September events - September 15 – The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the 'Katy') conveys 40,000 people to Crush, Texas to witness a staged train wreck as a publicity stunt arranged by its general passenger agent, William George Crush. Three spectators are accidentally killed.[11]
October events - October 5 – Norwegian Railway Museum established at Hamar.[12]
December events - December 14 – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world, begins operations in Glasgow, Scotland.
- December 25 – Japanese National Railways opens two lines out of Tabata: an extension of the Tsuchiura Line from Tsuchiura, and the Sumidagawa Line to Sumidagawa.
- December 30 – {{SS|Pere Marquette}}, the first steel train ferry, makes its first voyage.
Unknown date events - The Green Bay and Western Railroad is formed from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Green Bay, Winona and Saint Paul Railroad.
- The Loup Creek & Deepwater Railway (predecessor of the Deepwater Railway) is formed.
- Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company begins building steam locomotives.
- Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England, deliver the first five New South Wales T524 class 'Australian Consolidation' 2-8-0 type heavy goods locomotives to the New South Wales Government Railways, forerunners of the system's numerically largest class, finally totalling 280 representatives.
- Narrow gauge Ferrocarril de Tacubaya begins passenger service to Mexico City's Tacubaya amusement park.[13]
- The first narrow gauge (750 mm) railway in Estonia connecting Valga with Pärnu is opened.[14]
Births{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}Deaths January deaths - January 23 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, dies (b. 1814).
June deaths- June 4 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (b. 1827).
October deaths- October 21 – James Henry Greathead, English inventor of the tunnelling shield used for the London Underground (b. 1844).[15]
References1. ^Chicago "L".org, Northwestern Elevated (1893–1924). Retrieved January 23, 2006.
2. ^Western New York Railroad Archive (December 17, 2005), Erie Railroad – History {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502094343/http://wnyrails.railfan.net/railroads/erie/erie_home.htm |date=2006-05-02 }}. Retrieved December 28, 2005.
3. ^{{cite journal|last=Kardas|first=Handel|title=Britain's worst railway opening day – Ladas and the Snowdon Mountain Railway|journal=Railway World|volume=58|issue=683|date=April 1997|pages=66–71}}
4. ^{{Cite journal |author= | url = https://myfloridahistory.org/date-in-history/april-15-1896/first-train-henry-flagler%E2%80%99s-florida-east-coast-railroad-arrived-miami | title = The first train of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad arrived in Miami | location = Cocoa, Florida | publisher = Florida Historical Society | journal = Florida Historical Quarterly | access-date = October 31, 2016}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Bramson|first=Seth|title=Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_l2TR6eyYMC&pg=PA145|year=2003|publisher=Boston Mills Press|isbn=978-1-55046-358-3|pages=145–}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Burke|first=J. Wills|title=The Streets of Key West: A History Through Street Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLtPnBVPo-wC&pg=PA176|year=2004|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|isbn=978-1-56164-317-2|pages=176–}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Bramson|first=Seth H.|title=Miami: The Magic City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8H-RVTjot-QC&pg=PA130|year=2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4368-0|pages=130–}}
8. ^The Millennium Subway Line of Budapest
9. ^{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Charles|title=The Lunatic Express|date=1971|publisher=Macdonald|location=New York|isbn=978-0-02-584940-2}}
10. ^{{cite book|author=Webb, Brian|title=The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894–1940|year=1973|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-6115-5}}
11. ^{{cite web|first=Allen Lee|last=Hamilton|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/llc01|title=Crash at Crush|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|accessdate=2007-04-15}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://members.ozemail.com.au/~telica/Norway_Hamar_Railway_Museum.html|title=Norwegian Railway Museum – Hamar|accessdate=2010-01-28}}
13. ^{{cite book|title=Mexican Narrow Gauge|last=Best|first=Gerald M.|publisher=Howell-North|year=1968}}
14. ^{{cite web|title=Ajalugu|url=http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc|publisher=Eesti Raudtee|accessdate=23 April 2012|language=Estonian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc|archive-date=2017-09-23|dead-url=yes|df=}}
15. ^{{cite book|first=John|last=Marshall|authorlink=John Marshall (railway historian) |title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9}}
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