1852 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1852.
Events
March events
- March – With French government support, the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans absorbs the Compagnie du Centre; the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Tours à Nantes; and the Compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans à Bordeaux.
June events
- June 17 – The Somerset Central Railway in Englandis authorized.
July events
- July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Chepstow Railway Bridge is opened to traffic, completing the South Wales Railway throughout from Gloucester (England) to Swansea.[1]
October events
- October 1 – The Great Western Railway's Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway in England is completed throughout from Banbury to Birmingham Snow Hill as a dual gauge line.
- October 10 – The first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, between Chicago and Joliet, Illinois.
- October 14 – Opening of London King's Cross station by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain).[2]
November events
- November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated in Canada to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.[3]
- November 20 – The Cleveland, Ohio, opens.[4]
December events
- December 11 – Wilhelm Engerth patents the Engerth locomotive, an early articulated locomotive.
- December 12 – First section of Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture concession in Paris opens.
Unknown date events
- Angoulême.
- Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
- The first 2-6-0 steam locomotives are built.
- Inchicore Works, Dublin.
- John Edgar Thomson becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Births
August events
- August 16 – New Haven Railroad beginning in 1903 (d. 1927).[5]
Unknown date births
- railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.
Deaths
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References
- ^ Description of the wrought-iron tubular suspension bridge on the South Wales Railway, over the River Wye, at Chepstow; from the designs of I. K. Brunel, Esq. 1856.
- ISBN 978-0-7153-8634-7.
- ^ Peltenburg, Adam. "Grand Trunk Railway". Toronto Railway Historical Association. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
- ^ "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". Archived from the original on 2006-03-29. Retrieved 2005-08-06.
- ^ "Obituary: Charles Sanger Mellen". New York Times. November 18, 1927. p. 23.