1836 in rail transport

none 1835 1836 1837 1830 Events January events January 16 – The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest portion of what is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway, is chartered. February events February 5 – Henry R. Campbell of the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad patents the first 4-4-0, a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X February 8 - London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England.Thomas R. H. G. London's First Railway – The London & Greenwich 1972 Batsford London 0-7134-0468-X March events March - The Syracuse and Utica Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad, is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in New York. April events April – The first railroad car ferry in the U.S., the Susquehanna enters service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.October 2016 May events May 5 – The Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad in Massachusetts and eastern New York. May 19 – The Bristol and Exeter Railway receives parliamentary authorization. July events July 13 – John Ruggles is awarded 1 for his improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires.9,957 unnumbered patents have been filed previously. July 21 – The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad opens between St. John and La Prairie, Quebec, the first steam-worked passenger railroad in British North America. August events August 1 – The Utica and Schenectady Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad in New York, opens. August 8 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad opens its line to Andover, Massachusetts. September events September 5 – The Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad, the first steam railroad in Florida, opens. October events The Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia, an early predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, begins construction.Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway directory. 1882. pg. 17 October 25 – Construction begins on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad in North Carolina. Due to a lack of support in Raleigh, the route is revised to run from Wilmington to the Petersburg Railroad in Weldon.http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm CommunicationSolutions/ISI Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon) North Carolina Business History 2006 2012-04-05 December events December 3 – Wetheral train accident: A passenger train on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in England is wrongly diverted into a siding at Wetheral railway station, derails and crushes three people to death.The Times (London) 14 December 1836. December 14 – The London and Greenwich Railway opens throughout from London Bridge to Deptford.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 260–261 0-7126-5616-2 Unknown date events The Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operates the first steam railroad in Maine with two 2-2-0 locomotives manufactured in England. Births January births January 2 - Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad (d. 1916).Serpico, Philip C. Santa Fé Route to the Pacific 1988 Omni Publications Palmdale, California 0-88418-000-X 18–24City of Perris, California http://www.cityofperris.org/history.asp A Brief History of the Perris Valley 2006-07-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20060827004101/http://www.cityofperris.org/history.asp 2006-08-27 dead February births February 9 – Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (d. 1889). March births March 16 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, who developed the first practical cable car system for San Francisco, California (d. 1900).Millard Bailey History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography 1924 American Historical Society Chicago 3 312–317 https://books.google.com/books?id=rbQzAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA312 10 October 2021 Andrew Smith Hallidie Google Books May births May 21 – Francis William Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (d. 1906).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2003 Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 0-901461-22-9 May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1892). September births September 17 - William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (d. 1909). Deaths January deaths January 7 – John Molson, established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada (b. 1763). References Pennsylvania Railroad Historical and Technical Society (June 2004), PRR Chronology, 1836 (PDF). Retrieved March 5, 2005. White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9–15.