1896 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1896.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 23 - Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.[1]
[edit] February events
- February 14 - Northern Pacific Railway opens its Union Station in Portland, Oregon.
- February 24 - Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.[2]
[edit] March events
- March 20 - The Grand Trunk Railway purchases the Central Vermont Railway and begins operating it as a wholly owned subsidiary.
[edit] April events
- April 6 - The Snowdon Mountain Railway in North Wales, the only Abt rack system line in the British Isles, commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year.[3]
- April 28 - Passenger rail service of the Henry Flagler Florida East Coast Railway arrives in Miami from the former terminus of West Palm Beach, at the persuasion of Julia Tuttle; this quickly leads to incorporation of the city of Miami and extensive development of South Florida and the Keys.
[edit] May events
- May 2 - Budapest Metro Line 1 (Hungary), the world’s second, is opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.[4]
- May 9 - First Nord Express, Paris, France/Oostend, Belgium, to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- May 30 - Construction of the Uganda Railway starts at Mombasa.[5]
[edit] June events
- June 29 - The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (predecessor of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway) is incorporated.
[edit] July events
- July 23 - Delivery of world's first commercially-built oil-engined locomotive, from Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, England to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London (18 in (460 mm) gauge).[6]
- July 30 - Atlantic City rail crash: Shortly after 6:30 PM, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring around 60.
[edit] September events
- September 15 – The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the 'Katy') conveys 40,000 people to Crush, Texas to witness a staged train wreck as a publicity stunt arranged by its general passenger agent, William George Crush. Three spectators are accidentally killed. [7]
[edit] October events
- October 5 - Norwegian Railway Museum established at Hamar.[8]
[edit] December events
- December 14 - Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world, begins operations in Glasgow, Scotland.
- December 25 - Japanese National Railways opens two lines out of Tabata: an extension of the Tsuchiura Line from Tsuchiura, and the Sumidagawa Line to Sumidagawa.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Green Bay and Western Railroad is formed from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Green Bay, Winona and Saint Paul Railroad.
- The Loup Creek & Deepwater Railway (predecessor of the Deepwater Railway) is formed.
- Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company begins building steam locomotives.
- Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England, deliver the first five New South Wales T524 class 'Australian Consolidation' 2-8-0 type heavy goods locomotives to the New South Wales Government Railways, forerunners of the system's numerically largest class, finally totalling 280 representatives.
- Narrow gauge Ferrocarril de Tacubaya begins passenger service to Mexico City's Tacubaya amusement park.[9]
- The first narrow gauge (750 mm) railway in Estonia connecting Valga with Pärnu is opened.[10]
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] June deaths
- June 4 - Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (b. 1827).
[edit] October deaths
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead, English inventor of the tunnelling shield used for the London Underground (b. 1844).[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Chicago "L".org, Northwestern Elevated (1893-1924). Retrieved January 23, 2006.
- ^ Western New York Railroad Archive (December 17, 2005), Erie Railroad - History. Retrieved December 28, 2005.
- ^ Kardas, Handel (April 1997). "Britain's worst railway opening day – Ladas and the Snowdon Mountain Railway". Railway World 58 (683): 66–71.
- ^ The Millennium Subway Line of Budapest
- ^ Miller, Charles (1971). The Lunatic Express. New York: Macdonald. ISBN 978-0-02-584940-2.
- ^ Webb, Brian (1973). The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894-1940. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6115-5.
- ^ Hamilton, Allen Lee. "Crash at Crush". Handbook of Texas Online. University of Texas at Austin. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/llc1.html. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
- ^ "Norwegian Railway Museum - Hamar". http://members.ozemail.com.au/~telica/Norway_Hamar_Railway_Museum.html. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Best, Gerald M. (1968). Mexican Narrow Gauge. Howell-North.
- ^ "Ajalugu" (in Estonian). Eesti Raudtee. http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
