page_title: 1890 in rail transport
section_title: November events
hierarchical_section_title: 1890 in rail transport / Events / November events
context_section_description: November 4 – Official opening of the City & South London Railway, earliest constituent of the Northern line of the London Underground and the first real deep-level electrified "tube" railway in the world.
  November 9 – First section of metre gauge Chemin de fer du Vivarais in southern France opens, using Mallet locomotives.
  November 10 – Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits begins to operate the Rome Express train from Calais Maritime station via Paris and the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
  November 26 – The Mito Line in Japan operates its first freight trains.
caption: City & South London Railway train, from Illustrated London News, 1890
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