1859 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February events 1.2 March events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 August events 1.6 December events 2 Births 2.1 January births 2.2 April births 2.3 November births 3 Deaths 3.1 September deaths 3.2 October deaths 4 References

[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.

1. ^ Northern Railway of India, History Of Northern Railway. Retrieved March 3, 2006.
2. ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005