1850 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1850.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 13 — The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft opens the Rostock-Bützow-Bad Kleinen and Güstrow-Bützow railway lines in northern Germany.
[edit] August events
- August 29 — Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.[1]
[edit] October events
- October 19 — Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.[2]
[edit] November events
- November 19 — Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.[3]
- November 20 — The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.[4]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad begins operation in Virginia.
- Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, the Panama Railway.
[edit] Births
[edit] February births
- February 27 — Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric in the early part of the 20th century (d. 1927).
[edit] November births
- November 19 — Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913–1920, is born (d. 1934)[5][6][7]
[edit] Deaths
[edit] July deaths
- July 7 — Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).[8]
[edit] References
- ^ University of Newcastle upon Tyne. "SINE: Structure Details". http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143.
- ^ Baughan, Peter E. (1972). The Chester & Holyhead Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5617-8.
- ^ "Irate farmers burn freight house in 1850". Detroit Free Press. November 14, 2010. http://www.freep.com/article/20101114/NEWS01/11140539/1001/News/Irate-farmers-burn-freight-house-in-1850. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This month in railroad history — November". http://avenue.org/nrhs/histnov.htm. Retrieved 2005-11-20.
- ^ Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1934, p. 17.
- ^ Railway Age, September 29, 1934, p. 390.
- ^ Howson, Elmer T., D. A. Steel, and J. B. Tebo, editors (1922). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1922 edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman. p. 267.
- ^ "Timothy Hackworth". September 22, 2004. http://www.steamindex.com/people/hackwort.htm. Retrieved 2005-02-09.
