1841 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1841.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March events
- March 1 – Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines of England (via Summit Tunnel).[1]
- March 29 – The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Greenock.
[edit] May events
- May – James Bowen succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.[2]
[edit] June events
- June 30 – Great Western Railway of England completed throughout between London and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, including Box Tunnel.[3]
[edit] July events
- July 5 – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, England.[4]
[edit] September events
- September 19 – Inauguration of first international railway line (between Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland), but with a terminus in Basel; first continuous line October 15, 1843 between Antwerp (Belgium) and Köln (Germany)).
- September 21 – The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout, in England.[5]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Joseph R. Anderson becomes manager of the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm Tredegar Iron Works.
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[edit] References
- ^ Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4352-1.
- ^ Stratton, Fred. "Erie Railroad presidents". http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html. Retrieved 2005-03-02.
- ^ Body, Geoffrey (1985). Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data. Weston-super-Mare: British Rail (Western). ISBN 0-905466-70-5.
- ^ Derby Railway History Research Group (1989). The Midland Counties Railway. Gwernymynydd: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-11-3.
- ^ Turner, J. T. Howard (1977). The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1, Origins and Formation. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X.
