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 of new construction.

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.
  • 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).

November births

  • November 18 – Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902 (d. 1930).

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.