1845 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.
Events
March events
- March 19 – Boston and Maine Railroad Extension, which was incorporated a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates in Massachusetts, is merged into Boston and Maine Railroad.
July events
- July – James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
- July 1 – Boston and Maine Railroad opens the extension over the former Boston and Maine Railroad Extension line between Wilmington and Boston.
- July 21 – An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament having sanctioned Script error: No such module "convert". of new construction.[1]
August events
- August – Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.
October events
- October 8 – The Montour Iron Works of Danville rolled the first iron T-rails in Pennsylvania.[2]
- October 22 – First section of the Württemberg Central Railway opens, between Cannstatt und Untertürkheim.
Unknown date events
- William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith and Company.
- Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.
Births
June births
- June 24 – Georges Nagelmackers, Belgian founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains (d. 1905).
September births
- September 17 – Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (d. 1898).[3]
November births
- November 18 – Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902 (d. 1930).[4]
Deaths
January deaths
- January 14 – William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).
References
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30, 2005.
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