1841 in rail transport

none 1840 1841 1842 1840 Events March events March 1 – Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines of England (via Summit Tunnel).Marshall, John The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1 1969 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4352-1 March 29 – The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Greenock. May events May – James Bowen succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.Stratton, Fred http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents 2005-03-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html 18 March 2005 dead June events June 14 – The first section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway's main line is opened between Bristol and Bridgwater in England.E.T. MacDermot History of the Great Western Railway I 1927 Great Western Railway London 130E.T. MacDermot History of the Great Western Railway II 1931 Great Western Railway London 130–ff June 30 – Great Western Railway of England completed throughout between London and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, including Box Tunnel.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 5 – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, England.Derby Railway History Research Group The Midland Counties Railway 1989 Railway & Canal Historical Society Gwernymynydd 0-901461-11-3 July 7 – Opening of the railway from Bordeaux to La Teste in France.Michelle Zancarini-Fournel Les luttes et les rêves: Une histoire populaire de la France de 1685 à nos jours La Découverte 2016 978-2-35522-114-9 September events September 19 – Inauguration of first international railway line (between Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland), but with a terminus in Basel; first continuous line October 15, 1843, between Antwerp (Belgium) and Köln (Germany)). September 21 – The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout, in England.Turner J. T. Howard The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1, Origins and Formation 1977 Batsford London 0-7134-0275-X Unknown date events Draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William Williams of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne originate Stephenson valve gear for steam locomotives. Joseph R. Anderson becomes manager of the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm Tredegar Iron Works. References