1856 in rail transport

thumb | right | alt=Black and white image of the 1856 inauguration of Molsheim railway station | Image of the inauguration of Molsheim’s railway stationnone 1855 1856 1857 1850 Events January events January – Opening throughout of first railroad in Africa and the Middle East, from Alexandria to Cairo, Egypt (208 km or on).October 2016Raafat Jordan Jordan Star 1998-03-05 http://www.egy.com/community/98-03-05.shtml 2007-03-18 Desert Train Heralds Train Tourism In Egypt https://web.archive.org/web/20061207064829/http://www.egy.com/community/98-03-05.shtml 2006-12-07 dead January 29 – The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm Railroads — prior to the Civil War North Carolina Business History 2006 2011-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726152211/http://historync.org/railroads.htm 26 July 2011 dead March events March 23 or 26 – Cambridge Railroad street railway opens in Boston (United States), giving the city the world's oldest continuously working streetcar system. April events April 19 – Death of American locomotive builder Thomas Rogers, following which his son, Jacob S. Rogers, reorganizes Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. April 21 – The first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River opens between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.Willard John Quad City Times 2006-01-31 http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/31/features/celebrate/doc43dee8a37fa3d711745830.txt Dinner marks 150th birthday of the first railroad crossing on the Mississippi 2006-01-31 May events May 1 – First section of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway opens, between Ankleshwar and Utran.http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm Saxena R. P. Indian Railway History Time Line 2008 2009-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092028/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm 2012-02-29 dead May 6 – The newly constructed sidewheeler Effie Afton runs into one of the supports for the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, causing a fire that destroys the bridge just two weeks after it had opened. June events June 21 – The Illinois Central Railroad opens its Great Central Station in Chicago.5–7 July events July 14 – The Rome and Frascati Rail Road opens for service. July 17 – The Great Train Wreck (the worst railroad calamity in the world up to this date) occurs near Philadelphia in the United States. September events September 16 – Tarragona–Reus line in Spain opens. September 21 – The Illinois Central Railroad connects Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, completing 700 miles (1,126 km) of track to become the longest railway in the United States. September 22 – The Oriental Railway Company is granted the concession to build the first railway in Turkey, from İzmir to Aydın. October events October 23 – The line that is now Belgian railway line 161 is completed and opened connecting Brussels-North and Namur stations.http://www.belrail.be/F/infrastructure/lignes/161.html Ligne 161: Bruxelles-Nord – Namur Chemins de fer Belges nl October 28 – Opening of first railway in Portugal, from Lisbon to Carregado (37 km or on).October 2016 December events December 1 – Opening of first steam-operated passenger railways in Sweden, from Gothenburg to Jonsered (15 km or on) and Malmö to Lund (17 km or on).October 2016 Accidents uncollapsed Births February births February 2 – Frederick William Vanderbilt, director of the New York Central system (d. 1938). December births December 30 – Sam Fay, General manager of the Great Central Railway of England, 1902–1922 (d. 1953).Dow, George Great Central, Vol. 3: Fay sets the pace 1900–1922 Locomotive Publishing Co London 1965 Deaths January deaths January 8 – Charles "Joe" Baldwin, conductor on the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad March deaths March 11 – James Beatty, Irish engineer who was involved in building the European and North American Railway and the Grand Crimean Central Railway (b. 1820). April deaths April 19 – Thomas Rogers, American steam locomotive builder, dies in New York (b. 1792).Marshall John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 2003 0-901461-22-9 April 20 – Robert L. Stevens, president of Camden and Amboy Railroad (b. 1787).https://steamindex.com/people/american.htm#stevensrl American engineers 5 May 2020 steamindex.com Stevens, Robert Livingston 4 April 2024 November deaths November 1 - John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (b. 1780).https://steamindex.com/people/rastrick.htm John Urpeth Rastrick 12 August 2012 steamindex.com 4 April 2024 References Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This month in railroad history: September. Retrieved September 21, 2005.