1847 in rail transport

none 1846 1847 1848 1840 Events February events February 26 – The Somerville and Easton Railroad, a predecessor of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, is chartered. March events March 9 – The Richmond and Danville Railroad is chartered in Virginia. March 15 – The Amiens-Boulogne line in France opens between Abbeville and Étaples. March 16 – The Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opens between Shipley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England.Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale Bairstow Martin Martin Bairstow Leeds 2004 978-1-871944-28-0 March – First ever 4-6-0 locomotive, the Chesapeake, completed by the Norris Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 978-0-85112-707-1 April events April 19 – The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad, officially changes its name to Albany and Schenectady Railroad. May events May 24 – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities.Lewis, Peter R. Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847 Tempus Publishing Stroud 2007 978-0-7524-4266-2 May 31 – The first railway connection between Rotterdam and The Hague opens in the Netherlands.BrainyMedia.com 2005 http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1847/may_31_1847_52019.html Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 2005-05-27 June events June – The first Bradshaws Continental Railway Guide timetable is published by George Bradshaw in England. June 26 – Opening of first railway wholly within modern-day Denmark, from Copenhagen to Roskilde.October 2016 July events July 9 – The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is incorporated as an amalgamation of several important railway lines in Northern England.Marshall, John The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1 1969 David & Charles Newton Abbot 978-0-7153-4352-4 July 28 – Bristol and Exeter Railway's Clevedon branch line opens. August events August 9 – Opening of first railway wholly within Switzerland, the Swiss Northern Railway from Zürich to Baden.October 2016 September events September 22 – The Railway Clearing House in Great Britain recommends that Greenwich Mean Time be adopted as the standard time for all railways in the United Kingdom.http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html Daylight Saving Time – Standard time began with the railroads 2005-09-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20050915001624/http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html 15 September 2005 live October events October – Portland Company's locomotive erecting shops opened for business.The Grand Trunk in New England Holt, Jeff Railfare 1985 0-919130-43-7 124 December events December 1 The London and North Western Railway opens its Trent Valley Line to give a more direct route for the West Coast Main Line to North West England, bypassing Birmingham.Clinker, C. R. Railways of the West Midlands – a chronology, 1808–1954 Stephenson Locomotive Society London The first time zone in the world is established by British railways with GMT hand-carried on chronometers. Unknown date events John Urpeth Rastrick retires from Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.Bedwell, Carolyn 2002 http://www.kylenano.demon.co.uk/rastrick/jur-summary.htm John Urpeth Rastrick 2005-04-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20050309145731/http://www.kylenano.demon.co.uk/rastrick/jur-summary.htm 2005-03-09 Births October births October 6 – Webb C. Ball, watchmaker who introduced the first truly reliable and accurate timepieces on American railroads. Deaths November 16 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843–1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, dies (b. 1811). References