1842 in rail transport

none 1841 1842 1843 1840 Events January events January 1 – Boston and Maine Railroad, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad and Boston and Portland Railroad merge with the new company keeping the Boston & Maine name. January 2 — Commencement of operation of the Railway Clearing House in London, established to settle the division of payments for through traffic over different railways in Britain.Bagwell, Philip S. The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842–1922 1968 Allen & Unwin London 0-04-331037-0 January 24 — Frederick William IV of Prussia makes the first train journey by a reigning monarch.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X February events February 21 — Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opens in Scotland.Glasgow Constitutional Opening Of The Edinburgh And Glasgow Railway The Times London 1842-02-22 6 17913 March events March 31 — The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Oldham Werneth railway station in northwest England. April events April 11 — The French government enacts the Loi relative à l'établissement des grandes lignes de chemins de fer which establishes the plan for French railroads' placement in a star pattern centered on Paris. May events May 1 — Opening of first section of Upper Silesian Railway, between Wrocław and Oława, the first line within the borders of modern-day Poland. By August it reaches Brzeg.Jakub Halor 160 lat Kolei Górnośląskiej 2006-10-12 WPK Katowice Łódź Emipress http://www.wpk.katowice.pl/?itemid=100 Polish 2016-08-07 May 8 — Versailles rail accident: A train traveling between Versailles and Paris derails due to a broken locomotive axle near Moudon and catches fire, killing at least 55 passengers in the locked carriages. June events June 13 — Queen Victoria makes the first train journey by a reigning British monarch, on the Great Western Railway of England (Slough to Paddington).Body, Geoffrey Western Handbook — a digest of GWR and WR data 1985 British Rail (Western) Weston-super-Mare 0-905466-70-5 July events July 1 – The Bristol and Exeter Railway extension to Taunton opens in England. September events September — Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. December events December — William Maxwell succeeds James Bowen as president of the Erie Railroad.Stratton, Fred Erie Railroad presidents http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html 2005-03-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html 18 March 2005 dead Births October births October 12 — Robert Gillespie Reid, builder of many Canadian railway bridges as well as the Newfoundland Railway (d. 1908). December births December 7 — George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903–1909 (d. 1910). Unknown date births George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (d. 1914). Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (d. 1914).Indiana Historical Society Melville E. Ingalls Papers, 1870–1907, Collection Guide, biographical sketch http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/melville-e-ingalls-papers-1870-1907.pdf 2012-10-19 2012-08-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20120819115219/http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/melville-e-ingalls-papers-1870-1907.pdf dead References