1849 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1849.
Events
January events
- January 27 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the North Carolina Railroad to complete a rail line from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.[1]
February events
- February 20 – The Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad (which eventually was absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) is chartered in Ohio to build a railroad from Portsmouth through Piketon and Chillicothe to Lancaster.[2]
March events
- March 3 – The Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is chartered in Missouri.[3]
- March 5 – The Louisa Railroad.[4]
- March 24 – The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway after a foreclosure sale, is chartered in Pennsylvania.[5]
- March – The governments of railroad construction in India.[6]
June events
- June 20 – First North Wales Coast Line with many leading British railway civil engineers present.[7]
July events
- July 5 – First part of Paris-Est–Strasbourg-Ville railway opens in France.
- July 20 – The Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway opens to the public in England, the first suburban railway.
August events
- August 15 – Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Newcastle upon Tyne, England is opened permanently for rail traffic.[8]
- August 17 – The railroad construction in Indiais finalised.
September events
- September 1 – The first segment of the Lewiston to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service.
- September – Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, is delivered for carrying freight cars across the Forth estuary in Scotland between Granton and Burntisland.[9]
November events
- November 1 – The Caledonian Railway is opened throughout between Glasgow, Carstairs and Carlisle, completing a through rail route by the West Coast Main Line and providing the first service of through carriages between Scotland and England.[10]
Births
October births
- October 17 – Sir William Mackenzie, part-owner of the Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern Railwaypredecessors (d. 1923).
December births
- December 12 – New York Centralsystem (d. 1920).
Deaths
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References
- ^ "Railroads — prior to the Civil War". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
- ^ Morris, J. C.; Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Ohio (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 20, 2006.
- ^ "100 Years of Service". 1960. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2006-04-20.
- ^ Virginia General Assembly. Charter of the Louisa Railroad. 1849.
- ^ Morris, J. C., compiler, (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II: History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
- ^ Indian Railways Fan Club, IR History: Early Days – I. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
- ^ "Britannia Bridge". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ISBN 1-873513-28-3.
- OCLC 24175552.[page needed]
- ISBN 1-85260-049-7.