1861 in rail transport

none 1860 1861 1862 1860 Events February events February 22 – Passenger service began on Strasburg Rail Road with a visit from Abraham Lincoln. April events April 1 – Budapest Déli station opens as the Buda terminal of the line to Fiume. April – Nathaniel Marsh succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents 2005-03-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html 18 March 2005 dead May events May 13 – Line opened between Karachi and Kochi (169 km mi on) on 5 ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge, the first railway in modern-day Pakistan.October 2016 thumb|300px|right|"Locomotives Dismantled By the Rebels at Martinsburg, Virginia" in Harper's Weekly August 1861 May 24 – The Great Train Raid of 1861 is conducted by Stonewall Jackson. June events June 16 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia, is the first time in history a railroad is used tactically in battle. June – Opening of first section of rail line in Paraguay, under the auspices of Presidente Carlos Antonio López, with mainly British engineering, 4 km mi on from Asunción to Trinidad on the Iberian gauge of 1672mm.Williams Glyn http://www.sinfin.net/railways/world/paraguay.html Railways in Paraguay 20062008 2010-01-28 Regular services to Paraguarí begin on September 21 and on December 25 the line is extended to the city of Luque.El Semanario none July events July 21 – Railroad transport of Confederate States of America troops delivers decisive reinforcements providing victory in the First Battle of Bull Run.Railways at War Westwood, John Howell-North Books 1980 0-8310-7138-9 29 August events August 6 – An Act is passed to authorize the construction of the Blane Valley Railway in Scotland. September events September 4 – The Staten Island Railway is placed into receivership with William Henry Vanderbilt as receiver.Pitanza Marc Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail Arcadia Publishing 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&q=staten+island+rapid+transit&pg=PA7 978-1-4671-2338-9Roess Roger P. Sansome Gene The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System 2013 Springer 978-3-642-30484-2 223–247 https://books.google.com/books?id=qfZ0VxuLoc0C 4 October 2015Leigh Irvin Matus Paul Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html thethirdrail.net The Third Rail Online 27 June 2015 January 2002 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150530063638/http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html 30 May 2015 December events December 25 – Opening of first rail line in Latvia, between Riga and Dinaburg (Daugavpils), 230 km mi on on the Imperial Russian gauge of 1524mm on.Williams Glyn http://www.sinfin.net/railways/world/latvia.html Railways in Latvia 20042014 2015-02-12 Unknown date events October 2020 Jean-Jacques Meyer patents the Meyer locomotive. Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company in Berwick, Pennsylvania, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, begins manufacturing railroad infrastructure parts. Accidents uncollapsed Births January births January 28 – Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1910–1941 (d. 1942). April births April 26 – Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (d. 1919). June births June 8 – Karl Gölsdorf, Austrian steam locomotive designer (d. 1916).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 0-901461-22-9 John Marshall (railway historian) November births November 2 - Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) in England 1902–1912, Director of the GNR 1912–22 and of the London and North Eastern Railway 1923–1945 (d. 1946).https://steamindex.com/people/managers.htm#bury Bury, Oliver Robert Hawke Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior railway officers steamindex.com 11 January 1923 5 April 2024 Deaths October deaths October 13 – Sir William Cubitt, civil engineer on the South Eastern and Great Northern Railways of England (d. 1861). References