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1871 in rail transport
1872 in rail transport
1873 in rail transport
Timeline of railway history
This article lists events related to
rail transport
that occurred in 1872.
Events
March events
March –
John Adams Dix
succeeds
Jay Gould
as president of the
Erie Railroad
.
March 1 –
Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company
, one of the constituent companies of
American Car and Foundry Company
, is incorporated in
Pennsylvania
.
[1]
March 5 –
George Westinghouse
receives a patent for the
Westinghouse air brake
.
March 11 – The
3
⁄
4
mile (1.2 km) long
Bristol Harbour Railway
opens from the junction of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway
and
Great Western Railway
at
Temple Meads
to the Floating Harbour in Bristol.
April events
April 1 – The
Midland Railway
(
Great Britain
) admits
Third class
passengers to all trains, a move which other British railway companies follow.
[2]
April 6 –
Wallkill Valley Railroad
opens
Rosendale Trestle
, at this time the highest bridge in the United States, to rail traffic in
Rosendale, New York
.
May events
May 1 – The
Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway
, in
England
, opens.
May 1 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
begins construction westward from
Newton, Kansas
, toward
Colorado
.
May 18 – The
Delaware and Raritan Canal
,
New Jersey Railroad
and the
Camden and Amboy Railroad
, the first railroad built in
New Jersey
, are merged into the
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company
.
May 28 – The
Columbus and Toledo Railroad
is incorporated.
June events
June 12 – First section of railway in
Japan
opens, from
Yokohama
to
Shinagawa, Tokyo
.
[3]
[
page needed
]
June 17 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
, building westward from
Newton, Kansas
, reaches
Hutchinson
.
July events
July –
Peter H. Watson
succeeds
John A. Dix
as president of the
Erie Railroad
.
July 1 –
Schenker
, predecessor of global
freight
forwarder
DB Schenker
, is founded in
Vienna
.
[
page needed
]
July 2 –
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
opens its line from
Baltimore
,
Maryland
, to
Washington, D.C.
, via
Huntington
.
[4]
August events
August 5 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
, building westward from
Newton, Kansas
, reaches
Great Bend
.
August 12 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
, building westward from
Newton, Kansas
, reaches
Larned
.
September events
September 5 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
, building westward from
Newton, Kansas
, reaches
Dodge City, Kansas
.
September 13 – The first section of the planned railroad connection between
Vârciorova
and
Roman, Romania
, opens, connecting
Piteşti
,
Bucharest
,
Galaţi
and Roman.
October events
October 1
The
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway
is incorporated.
The first meeting of the Time Table Conventions, an organization that later became the
American Railway Association
, is held in
Louisville, Kentucky
.
[5]
October 2 – The
Kirtlebridge rail crash
in Scotland kills 10 people.
October 10
First passenger service on the
Transcaucasian Railway
(later
Georgian Railway
) in the
Russian Empire
, between the capital,
Tbilisi
, and the
Black Sea
port of
Poti
.
[6]
Shimbashi Teishajō
, the original Tokyo terminus of
Japan
's first railway, opens.
October 14 (September 12 in
Tenpō calendar
) – Official inauguration of first
Japanese
railway between
Shimbashi, Tokyo
(modern-day
Shiodome
) and
Yokohama
(modern-day
Sakuragichō
) (provisionally in June)
November events
November 1 –
Ensign Manufacturing Company
, later to become part of
American Car and Foundry Company
, is incorporated in
West Virginia
.
[7]
December events
December 28 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
, building westward from
Newton, Kansas
, reaches the border between
Kansas
and
Colorado
.
Unknown date events
Strasburg, Colorado
– joining of rail over river completes transcontinental railway.
American
steam locomotive
builder
Manchester Locomotive Works
purchases the
fire engine
manufacturing business of
Amoskeag Locomotive Works
.
At the age of 29,
William Cornelius Van Horne
becomes the youngest superintendent of
Illinois Central Railroad
.
Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company
, later to become part of
American Car and Foundry
, is founded in
Buffalo, New York
.
[8]
The
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
leases
North Carolina
's
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
.
Births
September births
September 20 –
Death Valley Scotty
(born Walter Edward Scott), con man who chartered the
Scott Special
record-breaking run on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
in 1905.
[9]
Deaths
January deaths
January 6 –
Jim Fisk
,
American
financier who worked with
Daniel Drew
for control of the
Erie Railroad
(b. 1834).
February deaths
8 February –
Joseph Pease
,
English
railway promoter (b. 1799).
[10]
April deaths
April 9 –
Erastus Corning
, established railroads in
New York
and was instrumental in the formation of
New York Central
(b. 1794).
August deaths
August –
Asa Whitney
, one of the first backers of an
American
Transcontinental Railway
References
Erie Railroad presidents
. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005),
This Month in Railroad History – May
. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
Santa Fe Railroad (1945),
Along Your Way
, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
^
"Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company"
. Mid-Continent Railway Museum. 2006-04-11.
Archived
from the original on 11 May 2008
. Retrieved
2008-04-16
.
^
Lee, Charles E. (1946).
Passenger Class Distinctions
. London:
Railway Gazette
.
^
Marshall, John
(1989).
The Guinness Railway Book
. Enfield: Guinness Books.
ISBN
0-8511-2359-7
.
OCLC
24175552
.
^
Susan Pearl (February 1990).
"National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bowie Railroad Buildings"
(PDF)
. Maryland Historical Trust
. Retrieved
2015-08-01
.
^
Adams, James Truslow
(1940).
Dictionary of American History
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
^
Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский, 2-е изд. Т. 16. Железо — Земли. 1952. 672 стр., илл.; 51 л. илл. и карт.
(in Russian)
^
"Ensign Manufacturing Company"
. Mid-Continent Railway Museum. 2006-04-09.
Archived
from the original on 11 May 2008
. Retrieved
2008-04-15
.
^
"Buffalo Car Company"
. Mid-Continent Railway Museum. 2006-04-09
. Retrieved
2008-04-13
.
^
Signor, John R. (Jan–Mar 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special".
The Warbonnet
.
12
(1): 17–29.
(
The Warbonnet
is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
^
"Joseph Pease"
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-08-17
. Retrieved
6 September
2007
.
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