1875 in rail transport

Events

January events

• January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year.
• January 7 – The North Pacific Coast Railroad begins narrow gauge railway service north from San Francisco Bay.

  February events

• February 9 - The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts.

  March events

• March 24 - The Mayor of Los Angeles, California, approves a measure to allow the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad, a predecessor of the Pacific Electric Railway, to extend its line to connect to the Southern Pacific Railroad train station.

  April events

• April 26 – Prince Edward Island Railway operates its first regularly scheduled train between Charlottetown and Georgetown.

  June events

• June 1 – Bristol and Exeter Railway in England completes installation of a third rail on its line between Bristol and Taunton, allowing it to operate gauge trains over the line.

  July events

• July 29 – Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad opens in the United States.

  August events

• August 7 – Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad completes construction through the White Mountains for what will become the Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division.
• August 30 – Groundbreaking ceremonies are held in Pembroke, Ontario, for the Canada Central Railway line between Pembroke and Renfrew.

  September events

• September 13 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Las Animas, Colorado.
• September 27 – Railway Jubilee at Darlington in England.

  November events

• November 18 – Bristol and Exeter Railway in England completes the gauge conversion from to of its Cheddar Valley line from Yatton to Wells.

  December events

• December – The initial parts of construction begin on the Bergen Line in Norway.

  Unknown date events

• The American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is founded.
• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad purchases the line between Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas.
• Russian engineer and inventor Fyodor Pirotsky introduces electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line.
• Cize–Bolozon viaduct opens across the Ain in France.
• First Caspar Lumber Company steam locomotive begins operation on what will become the Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad

  Births

May births

• May 9 – H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922.

  September births

• September 26 – Eric Geddes, first Minister of Transport 1919–1921.

  Deaths

January deaths

• January 18 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway.