1856 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1856.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January - Opening throughout of first railroad in Africa and the Middle East, from Alexandria to Cairo, Egypt (208 km/129 mi).[1][2]
- January 29 - The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.[3]
[edit] March events
- March 23 or 26 - Cambridge Railroad street railway opens in Boston (United States), giving the city the world's oldest continuously working streetcar system.
[edit] April events
- April 21 - The first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River opens between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.[4]
[edit] May events
- May 1 - First section of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway opens, Ankleshwar-Utran.[5]
- May 6 - The newly constructed sidewheeler Effie Afton runs into one of the supports for the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, causing a fire that destroys the bridge just two weeks after it had opened.[4]
[edit] July events
- July 14 - The Rome and Frascati Rail Road opens for service.
- July 17 - The Great Train Wreck (the worst railroad calamity in the world to date) occurs near Philadelphia in the United States.
[edit] September events
- September 16 - Tarragona–Reus line in Spain opens.
- September 21 - Illinois Central Railroad connects Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, completing 700 miles (1,126 km) of track to become the longest railway in the United States.
[edit] October events
[edit] December events
- December 1 - Opening of first steam-operated passenger railways in Sweden, from Gothenburg to Jonsered (15 km/9.3 mi) and Malmö to Lund (17 km/11 mi).[1]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Opening of first railway in Turkey, from İzmir to Aydın.
- After April 19 - Following Thomas Rogers's death, his son, Jacob S. Rogers, reorganizes Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
[edit] Births
[edit] February births
- February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt, director of the New York Central system (d. 1938).
[edit] December births
- December 30 - Sam Fay, General manager of the Great Central Railway of England, 1902-1922 (d. 1953).[6]
[edit] Deaths
[edit] March deaths
- March 11 - James Beatty, Irish engineer who was involved in building the European and North American Railway and the Grand Crimean Central Railway (b. 1820).
[edit] April deaths
- April 19 - Thomas Rogers, American steam locomotive builder, dies in New York (b. 1792).[7]
- April 20 – Robert L. Stevens, president of Camden and Amboy Railroad (b. 1787).
[edit] November deaths
- November 1 - John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (b. 1780).
[edit] References
- Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This month in railroad history: September. Retrieved September 21, 2005.
- 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.
- ^ a b c Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
- ^ Raafat, Jordan (1998-03-05). "Desert Train Heralds Train Tourism In Egypt". Jordan Star. Archived from the original on 2006-12-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20061207064829/http://www.egy.com/community/98-03-05.shtml. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ "Railroads — prior to the Civil War". North Carolina Business History. 2006. http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
- ^ a b Willard, John (2006-01-31). "Dinner marks 150th birthday of the first railroad crossing on the Mississippi". Quad City Times. http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/31/features/celebrate/doc43dee8a37fa3d711745830.txt. Retrieved 2006-01-31.
- ^ Saxena, R. P. (2008). "Indian Railway History Time Line". http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Vol. 3: Fay sets the pace 1900-1922. London: Locomotive Publishing Co.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
