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EVENTS

January events

January 16 - The Mito Railway between Mito and Oyama , Japan , begins passenger train operations.

June events

June 12 - The Armagh Rail Disaster occurs near Armagh , Northern Ireland ; runaway carriages collided with an oncoming train, killing 88, and spurring the UK Parliament to pass the Regulation Of Railways Act 1889 , mandating improved brake and signal systems.

June 30 - The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago And St. Louis Railroad (the ''Big Four'' Railroad) is formed through the merger of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati And Indianapolis Railway Company , the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis And Chicago Railway Company and the Indianapolis And St. Louis Railway Company .

July events

July 9 - The Housatonic Railroad leases the New Haven And Derby Railroad . {Link without Title}

July 17 - The Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad , in Colorado , is sold from receivership to the Denver, Leadville And Gunnison Railway .

September events

September 18 - The Minneapolis And St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway .

Unknown date events

Sir William Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway .

Amsterdam 's Centraal Station , designed by P. J. H. Cuypers and Al Van Gendt , opens.

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

Fred Gurley , president of Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway 1944-1957 (d. 1976 ).¹

DEATHS

October deaths

October 15 - Daniel Gooch , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837 – 1864 (b. 1816 ).

December deaths

December 13 - Franklin B. Gowen , president of the Philadelphia And Reading Railroad 1866 – 1883 (b. 1836 ).

REFERENCES

Blakeslee, Philip C., '' A Brief History Lines West of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. ''. Retrieved July 7 2005

Great Northern Railway Historical Society, '' GN History ''. Retrieved September 18 2005 .

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'' Death of Franklin B. Gowen ''. Retrieved March 2 2005 .