1859 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 11 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered in Kansas.
- February 13 - Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad completes construction of its line across Missouri to connect its namesake cities.
[edit] March events
- March 3 - Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the present day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur.[1]
[edit] May events
- May 2 Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash in Cornwall, England, opened by Prince Albert
- May 4 - Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
[edit] June events
- June 2 - the organization that is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad.
- June 7 - the Chicago and North Western Railway is chartered.
[edit] August events
- August - Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad.
[edit] December events
- December 27 - Grand Trunk Railway completes construction of the rail line from Toronto to Sarnia, Ontario, and begins a train ferry connection across the St. Clair River at Fort Gratiot.[2]
[edit] Births
[edit] January births
- January 11 - Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (d. 1920).
[edit] April births
- April 11 - Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900-1905 (d. 1943).
[edit] November births
- November 13 - George Knorr, inventor of the Knorr brake, is born (d. 1911).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] September deaths
- September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of Great Western Railway, dies (b. 1806).
[edit] October deaths
- October 12 - Robert Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1803).
[edit] References
- Baker Library Historical Collections, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896. Retrieved May 10, 2005.
- The Cosmopolitan (February 1893), The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Retrieved May 10, 2005.
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- ^ Northern Railway of India, History Of Northern Railway. Retrieved March 3, 2006.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005
