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none February 2012 1888 1889 1890 1880 Events January events January 16 – The Mito Line between Mito and Oyama, Japan, begins passenger train operations. January 28 – The last passenger car of a Chicago and North Western Railroad train derails and overturns and is then dragged over tree stumps near Elmwood, Michigan; Michigan's Lieutenant Governor and an acquaintance are killed in the accident.http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1880s/TimeLine1889.htm Railroad History Timeline – 1889 RRHX: Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum January 28, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110604033231/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1880s/TimeLine1889.htm June 4, 2011 dead thumb|200px|1889 advertising for Orient Express March events March 25 – Inauguration of Lansdowne Bridge over Indus River completes the Indus Valley State Railway through route between Karachi and Lahore in British India. May events May 1 – Opening of Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge north of Sydney, Australia. June events June 1 – The first direct Orient Express is operated from Paris to Constantinople. June 12 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs near Armagh, Ireland: runaway carriages collide with an oncoming train, killing 80, and spurring the Parliament of the United Kingdom to pass the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, mandating improved brake and signal systems.Currie J. R. L. The Runaway Train – Armagh (1889) 1971 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-5198-2 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 1 The railway between Tokyo and Kobe, Japan (now known as the Tōkaidō Main Line) is completed. A first section of Cumana Railway Line, Naples to Patamia Spa route officially completed, and regular operation service to start in Campania Region, Italy.:it:Ferrovia Cumana #Storia (Italian language) Retrieved January 10, 2017. July 9 – The Housatonic Railroad leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad.Blakeslee, Philip C. http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnere2.Html A Brief History – Lines west of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. July 7, 2005 July 17 – The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad, in Colorado, is sold from receivership to the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway. August events August 3 – Opening of Hawarden Bridge, Wales. August 20 – First section of Steyr Valley Railway in Upper Austria opened.Die Steyrtalbahn Ortner, H.M. http://www.schmalspur-europa.at/schmalsp_34.htm Die schmale Spur 2007 2017-01-21 September events September 18 – The Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway.Great Northern Railway Historical Society http://www.gnrhs.org/gn_history.htm GN History September 18, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050924103645/http://www.gnrhs.org/gn_history.htm September 24, 2005 dead mdy-all September 30 – Official opening of Palmerston to Pine Creek railway, first section of North Australia Railway, from Darwin to Birdum, Northern Territory.The Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway Harvey, J. Y. Australian Railway History February–March 1968 25–48, 63–71 October events October 15 – Amsterdam's Centraal Station, designed by P. J. H. Cuypers and Al Van Gendt, opens. November events November 7 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway consolidates several of its subsidiary railroads in California into the Southern California Railway.Serpico, Philip C. Santa Fé Route to the Pacific 1988 Omni Publications Palmdale, California 0-88418-000-X 30 December events December 28 – The first interurban tram-train to emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio.9 The Electric Interurban Railways in America George W. Hilton John F. Due Stanford University Press 2000 Unknown date events Darjeeling Himalayan Railway takes delivery of first four Class B locomotives from Sharp, Stewart and Company of Glasgow: the design will remain in service into the 21st century.Terry Martin The Iron Sherpa, vol. 2 Chester RailRomances 2010 978-1-900622-12-7 Riga–Pskov railway line connected with the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway in Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire is opened for traffic.Ajalugu http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc Eesti Raudtee 23 April 2012 Estonian https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc September 23, 2017 dead mdy-all First section of Luanda Railway opens in Portuguese Angola. State Belt Railroad begins operations in San Francisco. Births Unknown date births Fred Gurley, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1944–1957 (b. 1889, d. 1976).Railway Age Short and Significant: Santa Fe's Fred Gurley dies at 87 July 26, 1976 8 177 13 Deaths October deaths October 15 – Sir Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837–1864 (b. 1816).Steamindex September 24, 2004 https://steamindex.com/people/gooch.htm Sir Daniel Gooch February 9, 2005 November deaths November 13 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (b. 1809).Brooks, Edward C. Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP Bury Clerical Society 1996 0-9502988-4-0 November 24 – George H. Pendleton, president of Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879, dies (b. 1825). December deaths December 13 – Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (b. 1836).http://www.readinganthracite.com/death.htm Death of Franklin B. Gowen 2 March 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050209082158/http://www.readinganthracite.com/death.htm February 9, 2005 dead December 20 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870–1889, dies (b. 1833). References 30em