1868 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.

Events

January 1 – Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
January 3 – The Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan.
January 14 – The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.

May – The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

July – Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad.^[2]

August 20 – Abergele train disaster in North Wales: a London and North Western Railway Irish Mail passenger train on the Chester and Holyhead line collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin leaving 33 dead, the greatest toll up to this date in any British railway accident.^[3]

Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Calcutta & South Eastern Railway transferred to Indian Government.^[6]

History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.

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^ Bryant, Keith L., Jr. (1982). History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 260–261. ISBN 0803260660.
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