1889 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1889.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 16 - The Mito Railway between Mito and Oyama, Japan, begins passenger train operations.
[edit] June events
- June 12 - The Armagh rail disaster occurs near Armagh, Northern Ireland; runaway carriages collided with an oncoming train, killing 88, and spurring the UK Parliament to pass the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, mandating improved brake and signal systems.
- June 30 - The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad) is formed through the merger of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway Company, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company and the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway Company.
[edit] July events
- July 9 - The Housatonic Railroad leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad. [1]
- July 17 - The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad, in Colorado, is sold from receivership to the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway.
[edit] September events
- September 18 - The Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway.
[edit] November events
- November 7 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway consolidates several of its subsidiary railroads in California into the Southern California Railway.[1]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- Amsterdam's Centraal Station, designed by P. J. H. Cuypers and Al Van Gendt, opens.
[edit] Births
[edit] Unknown date births
- Fred Gurley, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1944-1957 (d. 1976).[2]
[edit] Deaths
[edit] October deaths
- October 15 - Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837–1864 (b. 1816).
[edit] December deaths
- December 13 - Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (b. 1836).
[edit] References
- Blakeslee, Philip C., A Brief History Lines West of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.. Retrieved July 7, 2005
- Great Northern Railway Historical Society, GN History. Retrieved September 18, 2005.
- (September 24, 2004), Sir Daniel Gooch. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
Death of Franklin B. Gowen. is a dead link; use the Internet Archive link here instead
- ^ Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Omni Publications, p 30. ISBN 0-88418-000-X.
- ^ (July 26, 1976) "Short and Significant: Santa Fe's Fred Gurley dies at 87". Railway Age 177 (13): p 8.
