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none 1859 1860 1861 1860 Events February events February 1 – Stockholders and officials take an inaugural ride on the first Staten Island Railway line between Vanderbilt's Landing and Eltingville.;Roess 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 2015 Google Books April events April 23 – The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but is operated separately from the New York City Subway. May events May 7 – The Bavarian State Railway opens connecting Rosenheim, Prien and Traunstein. May 14 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Annadale.Leigh Irvin Matus Paul Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html thethirdrail.net The Third Rail Online 2015-06-27 January 2002 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150530063638/http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html 2015-05-30 May 15 – New Brunswick issues the first postage stamps to depict a locomotive.1 c. F. F. Angus Railway Trains on Canada's Stamps Canadian Rail 209 January 1969 Canadian Railroad Historical Society 20–22 June events June 2 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.Pitanza Marc Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail Arcadia Publishing 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&dq=staten+island+rapid+transit&pg=PA7 978-1-4671-2338-9 June 26 – Opening of first railway in Southern Africa, the Natal Railway from Durban to The Point in the Colony of Natal (3 km mi on of standard gauge).October 2016 July events July 2 – Cessation of operation as an atmospheric railway of the Bois de Vésinet–Saint-Germain-en-Laye section of the Paris–Saint-Germain line, the last surviving atmospheric working.Hadfield Charles Atmospheric Railways 1967 David & Charles Newton Abbot 978-0-7153-4107-0 July 19 – The London and South Western Railway extension to Exeter opens. August events August 17 – The Oil Creek Railroad is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen. August 25 – The Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Railway Bridge near Montreal, Province of Canada. August 30 – The predecessor to Birkenhead Corporation Tramways opens the first street-running horsecar town tramway in Europe.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 September events September 17 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad, chartered on February 11, 1859, and predecessor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is organized. October events October 23 (approx.) – Installation of the first water troughs for steam locomotives to pick up water at speed, by the London and North Western Railway at Mochdre, Conwy, on its North Wales Coast (or Chester and Holyhead) line.Robbins, Michael Points and Signals 1967 George Allen & Unwin London October 26 – The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn in Germany opens between Bochum Hauptbahnhof and Witten. November events November 16 – The Atherstone rail accident in England kills 10 Irish cattle drovers. Unknown date events The first 2-6-0s with leading trucks are built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Louisville and Nashville 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 Kingston Locomotive Works, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, declares bankruptcy. Births January births January 3 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917–1928 (died 1936). December births December 6 – Howard Elliott, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903–1913 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1913Railway Age Gazette (August 1, 1913) pp. 177–8. (died 1928) Deaths March deaths March 14 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (born 1802). September deaths September 18 – Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway (born 1805). References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 25, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.