1857 in rail transport

thumb | right | alt=A beige map of western Russia and Eastern Europe depicting Russian rail lines at the time. | The Moscow to St Petersburg Railway, 1857none 1856 1857 1858 1850 Events January events January 13 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded 16381 for a railroad scale. February events February 2 – With the approach of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth line of the Great Western Railway (GWR), the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Yeovil branch line is extended from Hendford across Yeovil to the GWR station at Pen Mill, coinciding with the GWR line from Frome to Yeovil. February 9 – The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory.An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mal:29:./temp/~ammem_5Auu::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,mfd,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress 1858 May 18, 2006 February 18 – The Galena and Illinois River Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, is incorporated in Illinois.http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1840.html Ohio Railway Report: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio Morris, J. C. December 31, 1902 February 18, 2010 March events March 12 – Desjardins Canal disaster, Ontario, Canada: A faulty axle in a locomotive caused the derailment of a Great Western Railway train at the bridge over the Desjardins Canal and the subsequent collapse of the bridge. April events April 11 – The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed in France by amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies. May events May 7 – Formal opening of Midland Railway Leicester–Hitchin line, England. June events June 1 – The Crumlin Viaduct is opened to the public in the UK June 4 – The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. June 11 – Norwegian railway director Carl Abraham Pihl is demanded by a Royal Decree to instruct a terrain investigation of the area along the river Drammenselva from Drammen to Randsfjorden.På sporet med Krøderkippen Berntsen Ulf Lund Thure Lunner Dagfinn 1997 Norwegian Railway Club / Krøderen Line Foundation 82-90286-20-1 Norwegian 27 June 28 - The Lewisham rail crash (1857) in England kills 11 people. June 29 – The Cape Town Railway and Dock Company is granted approval to construct a 57 mi km mid -long off railway between Cape Town and Wellington.Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1943). The Locomotive in South Africa – A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter I – The Period of the 4 ft. 8½ in. Gauge. South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, June 1943. pp. 437–440. ca. June – Locomotion No. 1 is placed on display in Darlington, England, the first historic steam locomotive to be publicly preserved. July events July 21 – Opening of Peterhof railway station in Saint Petersburg (Russia). August events August 30 – Opening of first railway in Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the suburb of Floresta (10 km mi on of 5 ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge).October 2016 October events October – Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad.http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents March 15, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html March 18, 2005 October 12 – Completion of the Milan–Venice railway in Italy with opening of the section between Bergamo and Treviglio, following inauguration of the bridge over the Oglio at Palazzolo.Chronological overview of the opening of railway lines from 1839 to 31 December 1926 Trenidicarta.it http://www.trenidicarta.it/aperture.html Italian 2010-01-21 December events December 15 – George S. Griggs is awarded 18883 for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird. Unknown date events Wrocław Główny railway station in Silesia is completed. Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works. Daniel Drew joins the board of directors for the Erie Railroad. Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in the United States. The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars. The first rails made from steel are made by Robert Forester Mushet early in the year and laid experimentally at Derby railway station on the Midland Railway in England. The rails prove far more durable than the iron rails they replace and remain in use until 1873.The Guinness Book of Rail Facts & Feats John Marshall (railway historian) Marshall John 1979 Guinness Superlatives 0-900424-56-7http://www.fweb.org.uk/Dean/deanhist/marefold.htm fweb.org 2010-10-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20100731052814/http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/deanhist/marefold.htm 2010-07-31 dead Births January births January 31 – George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902–1922 (d. 1933).Rogers, H. C. B. G. J. Churchward: a locomotive biography George Allen & Unwin London 1975 0-04-385069-3 November births November 17 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920–1933 (d. 1940).New York Times October 30, 1940 https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA091FF83D5D177A93C7AB178BD95F448485F9 W. B. Storey Dies August 19, 2005Waters, Lawrence L. Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas 1950 43–44 Deaths April deaths April 20 – George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799).Kay Peter Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history Platform 5 1991 Sheffield 1-872524-42-7 May deaths May 8 – Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794). References 30em