1859 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February events 1.2 March events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 August events 1.6 December events 2 Births 2.1 January births 2.2 April births 2.3 November births 3 Deaths 3.1 September deaths 3.2 October deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] February events

• February 11 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered in Kansas.^[1][2][3]
• February 13 - Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad completes construction of its line across Missouri to connect its namesake cities.

[edit] March events

• March 3 - Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the present day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur.^[4]

[edit] May events

• May 2 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash in Cornwall, England, opened by Prince Albert.^[5]
• May 4 - Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.^[6]

[edit] June events

• June 2 - The organization that is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad.
• June 7 - The Chicago and North Western Railway is chartered.

[edit] August events

• August - Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad.^[7]

[edit] December events

• December 27 - Grand Trunk Railway completes construction of the rail line from Toronto to Sarnia, Ontario, and begins a train ferry connection across the St. Clair River at Fort Gratiot.^[8]

[edit] Births

[edit] January births

• January 11 - Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (d. 1920).

[edit] April births

• April 11 - Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900-1905 (d. 1943).^[9]

[edit] November births

• November 13 - George Knorr, inventor of the Knorr brake, is born (d. 1911).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] September deaths

• September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer of the Great Western Railway, dies (b. 1806).^[10]

[edit] October deaths

• October 12 - Robert Stephenson, English railway and steam locomotive engineer (b. 1803).^[11]

[edit] References

1. ^ Baker Library Historical Collections. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896. Retrieved on 2005-05-10.
2. ^ "The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe" (February 1893). The Cosmopolitan. 
3. ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally. 
4. ^ Northern Railway of India. History Of Northern Railway. Retrieved on 2006-03-03.
5. ^ Binding, John (1997). Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-39-8. 
6. ^ Woodfin, R. J. (1972). The Cornwall Railway. Truro: Bradford Barton. 
7. ^ Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
8. ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005
9. ^ The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved on 2005-08-15.
10. ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1957). Isambard Kingdom Brunel: a biography. London: Longmans. 
11. ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1960). George and Robert Stephenson. London: Longmans.