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Events
January events
- January 1 – Government of India takes over East Indian Railway Company.
February events
- February 3 – Great Indian Peninsular Railway inaugurates first section of Bombay suburban electrification out of Victoria Terminus.
March events
- March 14 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for construction of the Independent Subway System's Eighth Avenue Line are held at 123rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.
- March 24 – The Gyokunan Electric Railway in Japan opens.
April events
- April 24 – The first section of the Itsukaichi Railway opens between Haijima and Itsukaichi stations in Japan.
June events
- June 23 – The Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad is incorporated and purchases the assets of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad.
September events
- September 8 – Hull Electric Railway discontinues through service to Queen's Park, Toronto: passengers must now transfer to trains running from Aylmer.
- September 27 – The Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, begins construction in Tokyo, Japan between Asakusa and Ueno.
October events
- October – Sir Henry Fowler succeeds George Hughes as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
- October 22 – Central Railroad of New Jersey 1000, the first commercial diesel-electric locomotive, enters service at the Bronx Terminal Yard.
November events
- November 1 – Japan's Yamanote Line, which becomes one of Tokyo's busiest and most important commuter lines, opens.
- November 4 – Opening of Khyber Pass Railway, from Peshawar to Landi Kotal.
- November 21 – Seaboard Air Line introduces the “Orange Blossom Special”.
December events
- December 15 – Long Island Rail Road 401, the first diesel-electric locomotive used in mainline service, is demonstrated for the first time.
Unknown date events
- Rebuilding of Berlin Friedrichstraße station in Germany is completed.
- Henry deForest succeeds Julius Kruttschnitt as chairman of the executive committee for the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- Lima Locomotive Works builds the first 2-8-4 steam locomotives, their first "Super Power" types, for the Boston and Albany Railroad's routes through The Berkshires; also, the first production 2-10-4s, for the Texas and Pacific Railway.
- Electro-Motive Engineering changes its name to Electro-Motive Corporation (a company that would later become General Motors Electro-Motive Division).
- William W. Atterbury becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
- American Car and Foundry acquires Fageol and Hall-Scott.
- The New York Central Railroad establishes a new subsidiary, the Eastern Refrigerator Despatch. Operation of the ERD, along with its 2,100 reefers, is quickly absorbed by Merchants Despatch.
Births
Unknown date births
- H. Reid, prominent railroad photographer and historian (died 1992).
References
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History 154, p. 9-15.