1845 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.

Events

July — James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
21 July — An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament having sanctioned 2,816 mi (4,532 km) of new construction.^[1]

August — Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith and Company.
Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

June 24 — Georges Nagelmackers, the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains (born in Liège, Belgium, and died 1905).

November 18 — Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902, is born.^[2]

William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30, 2005.
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.

^ Lewin, Henry Grote (1936). The Railway Mania and its aftermath, 1845–1852. London: Railway Gazette.
^ Busbey, T. Addison, editor (1906). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1906. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. p. 666.