1848 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 1848.
Events
February events
- February 15 – The Caledonian Railway is opened to the public throughout between Edinburgh and Carstairs in Scotland and Carlisle in England, completing a through rail route by the West Coast Main Line and providing the first service of through carriages between Scotland and England.[1]
- February 18 – The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is chartered in Ohio.[2]
March events
- March – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway completes its Ballochmyle Viaduct, designed by John Miller. The main arch of Script error: No such module "convert". span, carrying the rails Script error: No such module "convert". above the River Ayr, is the world's longest masonry span. This section of line is opened to traffic on 9 August.[3]
April events
- April 3 – The Joseph Valley Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is chartered in Michigan.[4]
May events
- May 1 – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge in north Wales.[5]
- May 12 – Waterford and Kilkenny Railway in Ireland opens between Kilkenny and Thomastown.[6]
- May 22 – The Scottish Central Railway opens to Perth railway station, Scotland, including the Script error: No such module "convert". Moncrieff Tunnel on the southern approach to Perth.
June events
- June 12 – The Bristol and Exeter Railway's Tiverton branch line opens.
July events
- July – Henschel & Son turn out the first locomotive from their works in Kassel.[7]
- July 11 – London Waterloo station opens.[8]
- July 20 – Grand Trunk Railway predecessor Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad opens.[9]
September events
- September 10 – Use of the atmospheric system on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Devon Railway (England) ceases after less than a year of operation.[10]
October events
- October 2 – The Skipton to Colne section of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opened.[11]
- October 28 – The first railway in Spain, connecting Barcelona and Mataró, opens.[12]
November events
- November 1 – First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London.[8]
- November 3 – The first railway in South America opens, from Georgetown to Plaisance (Script error: No such module "convert".) in British Guiana.[13]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
December events
- December – The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest part of what is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway, begins operation.
Unknown date events
- Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond, Virginia) manager Joseph R. Anderson becomes the owner of the company.
Births
February births
- February 20 – E. H. Harriman, executive in charge of both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad at the start of the 20th century (died 1909).
April births
- April 12 – Alonzo C. Mather, founder of Mather Stock Car Company, designer of first widely recognized humane stock car (died 1941).[14]
September births
- September 15 – Alfred de Glehn, English-born designer of French steam locomotives (died 1936).
Deaths
August deaths
- August 12 – George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder (born 1781).[15]
References
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