February 21 – Gdadebo II, the Alake of Egba in modern-day southeast Nigeria, signs an agreement with the British Governor of Lagos Colony to lease lands for construction of a new railway from Aro to Abeokuta.
May 12 – The Swedish Railway Employees' Union (Svenska Järnvägsmannaförbundet, SJMF, "Sweden Railworkers' League"), the country's first such trade union, is founded. It survives until 1970, when it merges into a labor union of Swedish government employees.
July 23 – After successfully lobbying for a change in Canadian Federal regulations and a new city by-law to allow the service, the Ottawa Electric Railway begins Sunday operations.[4]
November 16 – A British Army troop train is wrecked in South Africa near Estcourt by the Boers and 56 men are taken prisoner, including war correspondent Winston Churchill.[6]
December 31 – Rail transport in Sudan: The desert railway from Wadi Halfa is completed throughout to Khartoum by British military engineers on 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge.
American Car and Foundry is formed from the merger of 13 smaller rolling stock manufacturers across the United States.[10] Southern Car and Foundry, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee.
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