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Events

February events

  • February 16 – The São Paulo Railway in Brazil is opened, including an incline system on the Serra do Mar.

April events

  • April 18 – Bristol and Exeter Railway's Portishead branch, built by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, opens.

May events

  • May 7 – The Windsor and Annapolis Railway is incorporated in Nova Scotia.

June events

  • June 29 – The Warrington rail crash in England kills 8 people.

August events

  • August 10 – The first railway in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) (and the first in Asia outside the Indian subcontinent) opens between Semarang and Tanggun in central Java (.
  • August 21 – The rack railway at Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, opens between Rockhampton and Westwood via Kabra.
  • August 24 – Opening of railway over the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy.
  • August 27 – J. Nason and J. F. Wilson, both of Boston, Massachusetts, are awarded the first U.S. patent covering level crossing gates.

September events

  • September 4 – The Boston and Albany Railroad is formed through the merger of four smaller railroads in New England.

October events

  • October – John S. Eldridge succeeds Robert H. Berdell as president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

  • November 19 – The Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company incorporated.

December events

  • December 1 – Skjærdalen and Tyristrand are connected on the Randsfjorden Line in Norway.
  • December 9 – The Lyttelton rail tunnel in New Zealand of 2595m between Christchurch and the port of Lyttelton is opened.
  • December 18 – The 'Angola Horror' train wreck kills 49 people near Angola, New York when the last coach of a Lake Shore train derails and plunges down a gulley.

Unknown date events

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires control of the New York Central railroad.
  • The Lehigh Valley Railroad places the first 2-10-0 steam locomotives in the world into use.
  • Construction on the Union Pacific Railroad reaches Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  • An early form of dome car is introduced in Russia.
  • Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Salina, Kansas.

Births

Unknown date births

  • Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1920–1937 (d. 1939).

Deaths

January deaths

  • January 5 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (b. 1802).

February deaths

  • February 7 – William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (b. 1799).

June deaths

  • June 13 - Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (b. 1789).

References

  • American locomotive engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.