1840 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1840.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 11 – The London and South Western Railway opens its original main line throughout to Southampton (England).[1]
[edit] August events
- 12 August – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr.
- 17 August – The first railroad built in Milan, Italy, the Milan and Monza Rail Road opens for service.
[edit] October events
- October 9 – Formal opening of first section of the Taff Vale Railway, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, from Cardiff Docks to Navigation House (Abercynon).[2]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad completes construction in North Carolina.
- Mordecai W. Jackson and George Mack partner to create a farm implement manufacturing company that would eventually become Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company.[3][4]
[edit] Births
[edit] January births
- January 8 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway of England 1877-1902 (d. 1905).
- January 29 – Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway (d. 1909).
[edit] February births
- February 7 – Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (d. 1919).[5]
[edit] June births
- June 6 – William Dudley Chipley, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873-1876 (d. 1897).
- June 16 – William F. Nast, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway September 1868.[6]
- June 27 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884-1909 (d. 1916).[7]
[edit] August births
- August 23 – Brayton C. Ives, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1893-1896 (d. 1914).
- August 25 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (d. 1893).[8]
[edit] November births
- November 24 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
- ^ Williams, R. A. (1968). The London & South Western Railway, vol. 1: The formative years. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4188-X.
- ^ Barrie, D. S. (1950). The Taff Vale Railway. Oakwood Press.
- ^ "Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company". Mid-Continent Railway Museum (2006-04-11). Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ "WOODIN, Clemuel Ricketts". Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies. USGenWeb (2005-07-01). Retrieved on 2008-04-16. Extracted from Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company. 1899.
- ^ Fordyce, Jim (1999). "Samuel W. Fordyce". Retrieved on 2005-08-15.
- ^ Waters (1950), p 35.
- ^ Alpheus Beede Stickney. Retrieved February 8, 2006.
- ^ Waters (1950), p 196.
