1837 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1837.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 April events 1.2 August events 1.3 October events 1.4 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 April births 2.2 May births 2.3 September births 2.4 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] April events

• April 24 - The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn, the first major railway line to be built between important cities in Germany, begins passenger operations.

[edit] August events

• August 24 - Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway line.

[edit] October events

• October 30 - The first Russian railroad, between St. Petersburg and Zarskoje Selo with a length of 23 km (14 miles), opens. The locomotive for the new railway was built by Englishman Timothy Hackworth using a gauge of 1829 mm (6 ft). Because the track connected the pleasure sites of the nobility, it was called "the train to the pub."

[edit] Unknown date events

• Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor receives the company's first order for new steam locomotives; the order for two locomotives is placed by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and is intended to be the beginning of the railroad's locomotive fleet.

• First Sugar-Railroad in Cuba Güines - La Habana opened.

[edit] Births

[edit] April births

• April 17 - J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (d. 1913).

[edit] May births

• May 23 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (d. 1919).

[edit] September births

• September 26 - Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893.

[edit] Unknown date births

• William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (d. 1914)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Pearson Education (2005), William Barstow Strong. Retrieved June 2, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 196.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.