- December 1
- 1909 – The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway inaugurates Britain's first suburban surface rail electrification scheme in South London.
- 1938 – David Blyth Hanna, first president of Canadian National Railway, dies (b. 1858).
- 1989 – The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad is merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
- 1990 – Construction crews on the Channel Tunnel from both England and France break through the last amount of rock separating the two tunnels, forming the first land link between the two countries.
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