1865 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1865.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 5 - The Festiniog Railway in North Wales officially opens to passengers, the first narrow gauge railway in the British Isles to do so.[1]
- January 10 - The California Pacific Railroad absorbs the Sacramento and San Francisco Rail Road Company and the San Francisco and Marysville Rail Road Company.
[edit] February events
- February 4 - The assets of Dayton, Xenia and Belpre Railroad in Ohio are sold in bankruptcy proceedings and split between the Little Miami Railroad and Columbus and Xenia Railroad.[2]
- February 9 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad, predecessor to the Colorado Central Railroad, is chartered.
- February 15 - The Chicago and North Western Railway and Galena and Chicago Union Railroad merge.
[edit] March events
- March 17 – The Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company shops in Berwick, Pennsylvania, are destroyed by fire.[3]
[edit] April events
- April - The funeral train for Abraham Lincoln travels from Washington, DC to Illinois.
[edit] May events
- May 25 - The first steel rails are rolled at a foundry in Chicago from Bessemer steel made in blast furnaces in Wyandotte, Michigan.[4]
[edit] June events
- June 9 - Rail accident at Staplehurst, United Kingdom: 10 killed, 49 injured; Charles Dickens is amongst the survivors.
[edit] August events
- August 7 - The Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company, with tracks in Pennsylvania and Ohio, is reorganized as the Lawrence Railroad Company.[5]
[edit] September events
- September 1 - The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
- September 13 - Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
- September 14 - The Brockville and Ottawa Railway begins operations between Arnprior and Sand Point, Ontario, a distance of about 6 miles (10 km).[6]
[edit] October events
- October 2 - First section of Sri Lanka Railway, then known as Ceylon Government Railways, officially opens from Colombo to Ambepussa (54 km (34 mi)) on 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge.[7]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Union Pacific Railway, later to become the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and not to be confused with the Union Pacific Railroad, begins operations.
- A group of businessmen in San Francisco, California, led by Timothy Guy Phelps, found the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.
- Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central.
- The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, is founded from the assets of the bankrupt Kingston Locomotive Works.
- Missouri Car and Foundry Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in St. Louis, Missouri.
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 2 - Frederick Methvan Whyte, mechanical engineer for the New York Central Railroad, creator of Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives (d. 1941).[8]
[edit] October births
- October 9 - George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1945).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (b. 1786).
[edit] References
- ^ Johnson, Peter (2007). An Illustrated History of the Festiniog Railway 1832-1954. Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-603-9.
- ^ Morris, J.C., Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 4, 2006.
- ^ Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company. Mid-Continent Railway Museum (2006-04-11). Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ Barnett, Leroy "Making America's First Steel in Wyandotte", Michigan History, Vol. 88 No. 4 July/August 2004
- ^ Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved August 7, 2005.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 13, 2005.
- ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
- ^ Lane, Harold Francis, editor (1913). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1913 Edition. Simmons-Boardman, New York, p 588.
[edit] Further reading
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9-15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
