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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1876.

Events

January events

February events

March events

April events

May events

Ribblehead Viaduct, Settle–Carlisle line

June events

July events

August events

  • August 3 – The Woosung Road runs over and kills a Chinese soldier on the tracks. The British Consular Court will find the driver David Banks innocent of manslaughter, but the ensuing public outcry pressures both sides towards a Chinese purchase of the line.[5]

September events

Panorama of Tehachapi Loop

October events

November events

December events

Unknown date events

Accidents

Births

April births

  • April 24 – Yury Lomonosov, Russian-born locomotive engineer (d. 1952).

May births

June births

Deaths

June deaths

References

  1. ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.
  2. ^ Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.
  3. ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway – a chronology. Gwernymynydd: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-12-1.
  4. ^ "The Woosung "Road"". Archived from the original on 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  5. ^ a b c d Pong, David (1973). "Confucian Patriotism and the Destruction of the Woosung Railway, 1877". Modern Asian Studies. 7 (4): 647–76. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00005333. JSTOR 311679. S2CID 202928323.
  6. ^ Penning, Rowin (2012). "6 december 1876". Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  7. ^ Van Riemsdijk, J.T. (1994). Compound Locomotives: An International Survey. Penryn: Atlantic Transport Publishers. pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-906899-61-3.
  8. ^ "Sir Nigel Gresley". December 9, 2004. Archived from the original on 10 February 2005. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
  9. ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.