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.[4]
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.
^The Great Dynamite Explosion, report by J. G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893.
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.[4]
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.
^The Great Dynamite Explosion, report by J. G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893.